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=====Jacques Lacan=====
=====Claude Lévi-Strauss=====
[[Lacan]]'s discussions of the "[[Law]]" (which [[Lacan]] often writes with a capital "L") owe much to the work of [[Claude Lévi-Strauss]].
=====Symbolic Exchange=====
=====Law of the Signifier=====
=====Legal-Linguistic Structure=====
Since the most basic form of exchange is [[communication]] itself, the [[law]] is fundamentally a [[linguistic]] entity -- it is the [[law]] of the [[signifier]]:
=====Symbolic Order=====
This [[legal]]-[[linguistic]] [[structure]] is in fact no more and no less than the [[symbolic order]] itself.
=====Human Law=====
=====Humans and Animals=====
Following [[Lévi-Strauss]], [[Lacan]] argues that the [[law]] is essentially [[human]]; it is the [[law]] which separates [[man]] from the other [[nature|animal]]s, by regulating [[sexual relationship|sexual relations ]] that are, among [[nature|animal]]s, unregulated:
<blockquote>"([[Human]] [[law]] is) the primordial Law... which in regulating marriage ties superimposes the kingdom of culture on that of a nature abandoned to the law of mating. The prohibition of incest is merely its subjective pivot."<ref>{{E}} p.66</ref></blockquote>
=====Oedipus Complex=====
=====Paternal Function=====
=====Symbolic Father=====
It is the [[father]] who imposes this [[law]] on the [[subject]] in the [[Oedipus complex]]; the [[Name-of-the-Father|paternal agency ]] (or [[Name-of-the-Father|paternal function]]) is no more than the name for this prohibitive and legislative role.
=====Second Time of the Oedipus Complex=====
====="Father of the Primal Horde"=====
In the second time of the [[Oedipus complex]] the [[father]] appears as the omnipotent "father of the primal horde" of ''[[Totem and Taboo]]''.<ref>{{F}} 1912-13. ''Totem and Taboo'', [[SE]] XIII, 1-161.</ref>
This is the lawgiver who is not included in his own [[law]] because he ''is'' the [[Law]], denying others access to the [[women]] of the tribe while he himself has access to them all.
==See Also==
* [[Desire]]
* [[Father]]
* [[Oedipus complex]]
* [[Pleasure principle]]
* [[Signifier]]
==References==
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