Pool Plans

Herb de Bray standing at the edge of the soon to be completed pool of the Elanor Misner Aquatic Center.

Empty Pool

The Brock pool as it begins to be filled with water.

Pool Foundation

Exposed escarpment rock during the construction of the pool.

Pool Filling

Olympic size swimming pool gets filled with water.

Pool

Olympic size swimming pool in the Eleanor Misener Aquatic Centre.

Brock Pool

View of the pool inside the Eleanor Misener Aquatic Centre.

"All The Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues": [Post]Oedipal Fatherhood And Subjectivity In ABC's Lost

ABC's popular television series Lost has been praised as one of the most innovative programs in the history of broadcast television primarily due to its unique storytelling content and structure. In this thesis, I argue that in spite of its unconventional stances in terms of narrative, genre, and character descriptions, Lost still conforms to the conventional understanding of family, fatherhood, and subjectivity by perpetuating the psychoanalytic myth of the Oedipus complex. The series emphasizes the centrality of the father in the lives of the survivors, and constructs character developments according to Freud's essentialist and phallocentric conception of subjectivity. In this way, it continues the classic psychoanalytic tradition that views the father as the essence of one's identity. In order to support this argument, I conduct a discursive reading of the show's two main characters: Jack Shepherd and John Locke. Through such a reading, I explore and unearth the mythic/psychoanalytic importance of the father in the psychology of these fictional constructs.