That brings me to the last author examined by Alberg.

Flannery O’Connor, unlike all the other authors, wrote with a dead hand.

Everything in her books and stories rings with the voice of a corpse, telling of the social construction that destroyed her, and revealing almost nothing about the symbolic order that supported the sinful social construction.

She forces the reader to say, “You do not make sense. Could you explain to me what you are writing in my own symbolic order?”, before realizing that she is only a corpse, a person who could never hold your symbolic order, because if she did, your symbolic order would construct a bureaucratic machine that would kill her.

She will never explain her writing in your symbolic order.

Consequently, many readers want to strangle her.