 He does not comprehend the cause of this phenomenon, and so "works through" a series of associated memories, each time implicitly linking sexuality and violence (e.g., feeling his penis "violently stiffen" upon beating the young black man).What Freud would call the "primal scene"—i.e., a traumatizing event in the child's early psychosexual development—is recovered at the end when Jesse remembers having attended the lynching.Eight-year-old Jesse even fixates on the black man's penis