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"[[law]]" ([[Fr]]. ''[[loi]]'')=====Symbolic Order===== [[Lacan]]'s discussions of Since the "most basic [[Law]form]" (which [[Lacan]] often writes with a capital 'L') owe much to the work of [[Claude Lévi-Straussanthropology|exchange]]. As in the work of [[Lévi-Strauss]], the [[Law]] in [[Lacan]]'s work refers not to a particular piece of legislation, but to the fundamental principles which underlie all social relations. The [[law]] is the set of universal principles which make social existence possible, the [[structure]]s that govern all forms of social exchange, whether gift-giving, kinship relations or the formation of pacts. 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> --- 

--===Human===Following [[Lévi-Strauss]], [[Lacan]] argues that the [[law]] is essentially [[human]]; it is the [[law]] which separates [[man]] from the [[other animals]] [[nature|animal]]s, by regulating [[sexual relationship|sexual relations ]] that are, among animals[[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> --- It is the [[father]] who imposes this [[law]] on the [[subject]] in the [[Oedipus complex]]; the paternal agency (or paternal function) is no more than the name for this prohibitive and legislative role. In the second time of the [[Oedipus complex]] the [[father]] appears as the omnipotent "father of the primal horde" of ''[[Totem and Taboo]]''.<ref>Freud. 1912-13; 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. In the third time of the [[Oedipus complex]] the [[father]] is included in his own [[law]], the [[law]] is revealed as a pact rather than an imperative. The [[Oedipus complex]] represents the regulation of [[desire]] by the [[law]]. It is the [[law]] of the [[pleasure principle]], which commands the [[subject]] to "Enjoy as little as possible!", and thus maintains the [[subject]] at a safe distance from the [[Thing]]. -- 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 interdiciton. [[Desire]] is essentially the [[desire]] to [[transgress]], and for there to be [[transgression]] it is first necesary for there to be [[prohibition]].<ref>{{S7}} p.83-4</ref> Thus it is not the case that there is a pregiven [[dsire]] 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> -- If the [[law]] is closely connected to the [[father]], this is not only because the [[father]] is one who imposes the [[law]], but also because the [[law]] is born out of the murder of the [[father]].

This =====Oedipus Complex=====It is clearly illustrated the [[father]] who imposes this [[law]] on the [[subject]] in the myth [[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]]. In the second [[time]] of the [[Oedipus complex]] the [[father]] appears as the omnipotent "father of the [[primal ]] [[horde which ]]" of ''[[FruedTotem and Taboo]] recounts in ''.<ref>{{F}} ''[[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. In the [[third]] time of the [[Oedipus complex]] the [[father]] is included in his own [[law]], the [[law]] is revealed as a pact rather than an imperative.

In this myth, =====Regulation of Desire=====The [[Oedipus complex]] represents the regulation of [[desire]] by the [[law]]. It is the murder [[law]] of the [[fatherpleasure principle]], which commands the [[subject]]to "[[Enjoy]] as little as possible!", far and thus maintains the [[subject]] at a safe distance from freeing the sons from [[Thing]]. 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]], only reinforces it is also [[true]] that the [[law]] creates [[desire]] in the first [[place]] by creating interdiction. [[Desire]] is essentially the [[desire]] to [[transgress]], and for there to be [[transgression]] it is first necesary for there to be [[prohibition]].<ref>{{S7}} p.83-4</ref> Thus it is not the [[case]] that there is a pregiven [[desire]] which the [[prohibitlaw]]s then regulates, but that [[incestdesire]]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>

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