We cannot carry our father's corpse with us everywhere we go.

The image of “carrying our father’s corpse” suggests being burdened by inherited obligations, grief, or the dead weight of tradition—especially paternal authority and the past. Read as a modernist maxim, it argues that one cannot live freely while continually transporting the remains of what came before: at some point mourning must end, debts to ancestry must be renegotiated, and the living must choose their own direction. The blunt corporeal metaphor also implies that clinging to the past is not merely sentimental but physically and psychologically disabling, turning memory into a kind of encumbrance that prevents movement, change, and creative renewal.