Sentence:  Yet when we examine how Mendes's film figures the behind, as it were, behind the father, when we look closely at the film's <WSD>figurings</WSD> of anality in the father/son relation, we do not see an insistence that traces of a radical Otherness emerge in <WSD>figurings</WSD> of archaic relations and in turn challenge problematic, idealized claims that relations between men can transcend Symbolic mediation. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Representation.