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==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]]'''.
===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.
==Psychosis=Foreclosure===The [[foreclosure]] of the this [[name-of-the-fatherfundamental signifier]], or its [[expulsion ]] from the [[subject]]'s [[symbolic|symbolic universe]] universe, is said by [[Lacan]] to be the mechanism that triggers [[psychosis]]. If this signifier is foreclosed (not included in the symbolic order), the result is [[psychosis]].Nevertheless, [[Jacques Lacanmechanism]] developed this concept with the ultimately unsuccessful aim of curing psychosis. ==Outside Language== The [[phallus]], as a [[representation]] of [[mastery]], can never be reached. The [[father]] is above or [[outside]] the [[structure]] of [[language]]. [[Language]] relies on the [[absence]] of the [[phallus]] from the [[structure]] of [[signification]]. [[Language]] would not make sense, or produce [[meaning]], if the [[phallus]] were not '[[outside]]'. Nothing can be thought that is 'triggers 'outside'' of language, but the phallus ''is'' there and therefore structures the whole system of thought accordingly. ==Freud vs Lacan== In ''[[Totem and Taboopsychosis]]'', [[Sigmund Freud]] There was a [[father]] which the brothers killed. The brothers felt guilty about killing their [[father]]'.
===Paternal Metaphor===
[[Image:NOTF.gif|thumb|404px|right|The paternal metaphor]]
In [[another]] work on [[psychosis]], [[Lacan]] represents the '''[[Oedipus complex]]''' as a '''[[metaphor]]''' ('''[[paternal metaphor]]'''), in which one [[signifier]] (the [[Name-of-the-Father]]) [[metaphor|substitutes]] another (the [[desire]] of the [[mother]]).
==See Also==
{{See}}
* [[Castration]]
* [[Father]]
* [[Foreclosure]]
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* [[Law]]
* [[Metaphor]]
* [[Oedipus complex]]
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* [[Paternal metaphor]]
* [[Psychosis]]
* [[RealSeminar]]||* [[Signification]]
* [[Signifier]]
* [[Symbolic]]{{Also}}
==References==
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