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==Nature and Language==
==Nature and Culture==
[[Lacan]] adopts the traditional [[anthropology|anthropological]] opposition between [[nauturenature]] and [[culture]] ([[culture]] being, in [[Lacan]]ian terms, the [[symbolic]] [[order]]).
==Incest Prohibition==
Like [[Claude Levi-Strauss]] and other [[anthropology|anthropologists]], [[Lacan]] points to the [[prohibition]] of [[incest]] as the kernel of the [[law|legal]] [[structure]]] which differentiates [[culture]] from [[nature]].
<blockquote>"The primordial Law is therefore that which in regulating marriage superimposes the kingdom of culture on that of a nature abandoned to the law of mating."<ref>{{E}} p.66</ref></blockquote>
The regulation of [[kinship]] by the [[incest]] [[taboo]] points to the fact that the [[paternal function]] is at the heart of the rift between [[human]]s and [[animal]]s.
By insribing a line of descent from [[male]] to [[male]] and thus ordering a series of generations, the [[Father]] marks the difference between the [[symbolic]] and the [[imaginary]].
