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"[[law]]" ([[Fr]]. ''[[{{Topp}}loi]]''){{Bottom}}==Jacques Lacan=====Social Relations===[[Lacan]]'s discussions of the "[[Law]]" (which [[Lacan]] often writes with a [[capital ']] "L'") owe much to the [[work ]] of [[Claude Lévi-Strauss]].  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 [[anthropology|social exchange]]'', whether [[anthropology|gift-giving, kinship relations or the formation of pacts. Since the most basic form of exchange is [[communication]] itself, the [[lawanthropology|kinship relations]] is fundamentally a [[linguistic]] entity - it is or the [[lawformation]] 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}} ppacts.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.

=====Oedipus Complex=====It is the [[father]] who imposes this [[law]] on the [[subject]] in the [[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]]" of ''[[Totem and Taboo]]''.<ref>{{F}} ''[[Works of Sigmund Freud. |Totem and Taboo]]'', 1912-13; this . [[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 the third time =====Regulation of the [[Oedipus complex]] the [[father]] is included in his own [[law]], the [[law]] is revealed as a pact rather than an imperative.Desire=====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 interdicitoninterdiction.  [[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 [[dsiredesire]] 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 is clearly illustrated in the myth of the [[father]] of the primal horde which [[Frued]] recounts in ''[[Totem and Taboo]]''. In this myth, the murder of the [[father]], far from freeing the sons from the [[law]], only reinforces the [[law]] which [[prohibit]]s [[incest]].</blockquote>

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