“Rite of Passage” traces the psychic archeology of the social bond and, as in primitive communities, posits the totem as the “name of the father” for the group of children. As such, the totem will always signify something that is excessive in relation to its symbolic meaning. The Law that regulates sexuality is thus revealed to be possible only as subject to and alongside the hypothetic possibility of undoing the bond, of a fantasy about going beyond the pleasure principle, where the Nerium oleander hides the vector of the death drive behind the beauty of the spring.
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