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Since the most basic form of exchange is [[communication]] itself, the [[law]] is fundamentally a [[linguistic]] entity -- it is the [[law]] of the [[signifier]]:
<blockquote>This law, then, is revealed clearly enough as identical with an order of language. For without kinship nominations, no power is capable of instituting the order of preferences and taboos that bind and weave the yarn of lineage through succeeding generations.<ref>{{E}} p.66</ref></blockquote>
=====Symbolic Order=====
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=====
=====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. ''[[Works of Sigmund Freud|Totem and Taboo]]'', 1912-13. [[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.
=====Dialectical Relationship between Law and Desire=====
The relationship between the [[law]] and [[desire]] is, however, a [[dialectic]]al one; "desire is the reverse of the law."<ref>{{Ec}} p.787</ref>
If, on the one hand, [[law]] imposes limits on [[desire]], it is also true that the [[law]] creates [[desire]] in the first place by creating interdiction.
Thus it is not the case that there is a pregiven [[desire]] which the [[law]] then regulates, but that [[desire]] is born out of the process of regulation.
<blockquote>"What we see here is the tight bond between desire and Law."<ref>{{S7}} p.177</ref></blockquote>
=====Murder of the Father=====
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