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In 1897 [[Freud ]] remarked, on the basis of his [[analysis ]] of his first [[patients ]] and his [[self]]-analysis, that "The [[father ]] forbids the [[child ]] from realizing its [[unconscious ]] [[wish ]] to [[sleep ]] with his [[mother]]" ([[letter ]] to [[Fliess]], October 15, 1897). This first [[outline ]] of the [[Oedipus ]] [[complex]], which now appears simplistic, grew increasingly complex throughout Freud's research. In [[time ]] the Law of the Father turned out to be directed both toward the mother ("You will not reintegrate your product") as well as her offspring swept up by [[desire]]. The law is alsoaccompanied by an [[injunction]] against cannibalism and [[murder]], and hold up ideals, primarily [[sexual]] ones ("Later you will [[enjoy]], like me, a [[woman]] from [[another]] [[family]]").Once introjected, this becomes the origin of the [[superego]] and ego [[ideal]].The [[repression]] of [[drives]], their [[suppression]] and [[sublimation]], are the principal outcomes of the [[conflict]] that connects [[them]] structurally to this law.
Freud quickly recognized that the actual [[presence]] of a father is not the best [[guarantee]] of the fulfillment of this law: An [[absent]] or [[dead]] father can serve as the [[agent]], as well as or better than the [[living]] father. This led to the creation of the [[myth]] of the [[primitive]] father (a, 1912-1913a). Jacques [[Lacan]] showed that this Law of the Father, to the extent that it serves as a [[principle]] of differentiation and [[separation]], is in fact the law of [[language]] and a sine qua non for the [[existence]] of desire. He claimed that the [[subject]] [[structures]] himself through his unconscious response to the law and to the incestuous desires it shapes to: the repression of desire ([[neurosis]]), and the [[denial]] or foreclosure of the law ([[perversion]] and [[psychosis]], respectively). Lacan also showed that it is important to differentiate the [[real]] Father, the [[imaginary]] Father, and the [[symbolic]] Father.
==See Also==
* [[Ego ideal/ideal ego]]
* [[Fatherhood]] * [[Foreclosure]] * [[Myth of origins]] * [[Name-of-the-Father]] * [[Real, Symbolic, and Imaginary father]] * [[Sexuation, formulas of]]
==References==
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# [[Freud, Sigmund]]. (1912-1913a). [[Totem]] and [[taboo]]. SE, 13: 1-161.
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