"[[Name-of-the-Father]] ([[Fr]]. ''[[{{Topp}}Nom-du-Père]]''){{Bottom}}
==Jacques Lacan==
===Symbolic Father===
When the expression "[[Name-of-the-Father|the name of the father]]" first appeared in [[Lacan]]’s [[work]], in the early 1950s, it is without [[capital]] letters and refers generally to the '''legislative''' and '''prohibitive''' function of the "'''[[symbolic]] [[father]]'''" as the one who lays down the [[taboo]] on [[incest]] in the '''[[Oedipus complex]]'''.
[[Jacques Lacan]] introduced <blockquote>"It is in the concept of the [[Name-of-the-Father]] into [[psychoanalytic theory]]. When the expression "'[[Name-of-the-Father|the name of the father]]" first appeared in [[Lacan]]’s work, in the early 1950s, it is without capital letters and refers generally to the "[[prohibition|prohibitive role]]" of the "[[symbolic]] [[father]]" as the one who lays down the [[incest]] [[taboo]] in the [[Oedipus complex]]. <blockquote>It is in the 'name of the father' that we must recognize the support of the '''symbolic function ''' which, from the dawn of [[history]], has [[identified ]] his person with '''the [[figure ]] of the law'''."<ref>{{E}} p.67</ref></blockquote> ===The 'No" of the Father=== From the beginning [[Lacan]] plays on the homophony of ''le nom du père'' (the name of the father) and ''le 'non' du père'' (the 'no' of the father), to emphasize the legislative and prohibitive function of the [[symbolic]] [[father]] -- the 'no' of the [[incest]] [[taboo]]. In the French language, the expression “the name of the father” (''le nom du père'') is phonetically similar to the expression “the ‘no’ of the father” (''le ‘non’ du père'').Lacan plays on this similarity to emphasize the prohibitive function of the symbolic father (the ‘no’ of the [[incest]] [[taboo]]). The term is a play on the near-homonyms ''non'' and ''nom''. The "[[Name-of-the-Father]]" (''[[nom-du-père]]'') can be read the "'No' of the [[Father]]" (''non-du-père''). The 'No' refers to the [[symbolic]] [[prohibition]] The 'No' of the [[Father]] to the [[desire]] of the [[child]] for [[incest]]uous relations with the [[mother]]. The 'No' of the [[Father]] to the [[child]]'s [[incest]]uous [[desire]] for the [[mother]].
===Legislative and Prohibitive Function===
The rexpression is at once a semi-humorous [[religion|religious]] allusion and a play on the near-homonyms '''''non''''' and '''''nom''''': the '''[[name-of-the-father]]''' ('''''le nom du père''''') is also the [[father]]'s "'''no'''" ('''''le "non" du père''''') to the [[child]]'s [[incest]]uous '''[[desire]]''' for its '''[[mother]]'''. (the '''[[law|legislative and prohibitive function]]''' of the '''[[symbolic]] [[father]]''')
===Fundamental Signifier===In [[Lacan]]'s 1955-6 [[seminar]], [[The Psychoses]], the expression becomes capitalized and hyphenated and takes on a more precise [[meaning]]; the [[Name-of-the-Father]] is described as the '''[[fundamental signifier]]''' which permits '''[[signification]]''' to proceed normally.
A few years later, in The [[Name-of-the -Father]] both confers [[seminaridentity]] on [[human]] [[subject]]s (by situating [[them]] in a lineage and the [[psychosessymbolic]][[order]]), the expression becomes capitalized and hyphenated and takes on a more precise meaning; [[signification|signifies]] the '''[[Name-of-the-FatherOedipus complex|Oedipal]] [[law|prohibition]] is now ''', the ''''no'''' of the [[fundamental signifierincest]] which permits [[significationtaboo]] to proceed normally.
This ===Foreclosure===The [[foreclosure]] of this [[fundamental signifier]] both confers identity on , or its [[expulsion]] from the [[subject]] (it names him's [[symbolic|symbolic universe]], positions him within the is said by [[symbolic orderLacan]]) and signifies to be the [[Oedipalmechanism]] that triggers '''[[prohibitionpsychosis]], the 'no' of the incest taboo'.
If this ===Paternal Metaphor===[[signifierImage:NOTF.gif|thumb|404px|right|The paternal metaphor]]In [[another]] work on [[psychosis]], [[Lacan]] represents the '''[[Oedipus complex]] is ''' as a '''[[foreclosedmetaphor]] ''' (not included '''[[paternal metaphor]]'''), in which one [[signifier]] (the [[symbolic orderName-of-the-Father]]), [[metaphor|substitutes]] another (the [[desire]] of the result is [[psychosismother]]).
--==See Also=={{See}}* [[Castration]]* [[Father]]* [[Foreclosure]] ||* [[Law]]* [[Metaphor]] * [[Oedipus complex]]||* [[Paternal metaphor]]* [[Psychosis]] * [[Seminar]]||* [[Signification]]* [[Signifier]] * [[Symbolic]]{{Also}}
In another work on ==References==<div style="font-size:11px" class="references-small"><references/></div> [[psychosiscategory:Freudian psychology]], [[Lacan]] represents of the [[Oedipus complex]] as a [[metaphor]] ([[paternal metaphor]]), in which one [[signifier]] (the [[Name-of-the-FatherCategory:Linguistics]]) substitutes another (the [[desireCategory:Language]] of the [[motherCategory:Symbolic]]).{{OK}}__NOTOC__ __NOEDITSECTION__
