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[[Death]] in the [[symbolic order]] is related to the [[death]] of the [[Father]] (i.e. the murder of the [[father]] of the [[horde]] in ''[[Totem and Taboo]]''<ref>{{F}} ''[[Totem and Taboo]]'', 1912-13. [[SE]] XIII, 1</ref>); the [[symbolic]] [[father]] is always a [[dead]] [[father]].

In the [[seminar]] of 1959-60, ''[[The Ethics of Psychoanalysis]]'',

[[Lacan]] talks about the "[[second death]]."<ref>{{S7}} p. 211</ref>

The [[death|second death]] is that which prevents the regeneration of the [[dead]] [[body]], "the point at which the very cycles of the transformations of nature are annihilated."<ref>{{S7}} p. 248</ref>

The concept of the [[second death]] is used by [[Lacan]] to formulate ideas on various themes:

* beauty - "It is the function of beauty to reveal man's relationship to his own death."<ref>{{S7}} p. 260, 299</ref>

* the [[sadistic]] [[fantasy]] of inflicting perpetual [[pain]]<ref>{{S7}} p. 295</ref>

The phrase "[[zone between-two-deaths]]" (''[[l'espace de l'entre-deux-morts]]'') designates "the zone in which tragedy is played out."<ref>{{S8}} p. 120</ref>