What is Carlos' epiphany at the end of "The Doll Queen"?

Carlos Fuentes writes "The Doll Queen" in magical realism
as a symbolist short story of the grotesque literature genre. Magical realism is a Latin
American originated style movement that features a blurring between the boundaries of
reality and fantasy: what seems like a realistic story in a realistic setting and time,
with realistic characters will suddenly take on qualities attributed to magic, folk
lore, and/or legend. This blending of of realism and magicalism is seen in "The Doll
Queen" when Amilamia suddenly appears as a disfigured individual confined to a
wheelchair while her child-sized coffin is on display in the other
room.

The ultimate meaning of "The Doll Queen" is that
cutting one's self off from one's past, or more specifically for Carlos the hero, from
his primitive, intuitive, emotional, Indian past leaves one stunted and dwindled in
development, misshapen, and grotesque. It is the ancient side of self that can provide
one's name, and only Amilamia gives the narrator a name, a name that is rejected just as
she is rejected as the narrator runs away. Cutting one's self off from one's past cuts
one off from one's self as well.