The '''Name of the Father''' ([[French language|French]] ''{{Topp}}Nom -du père'') , or the '''names of the father''' is the [[signifier]] associated with the [[signified]] [[concept]] of the [[father]]. The name of the Father is a [[symbolic]] formation. -Père{{Bottom}}
French theorist and psychoanalyst ==Jacques Lacan=====Symbolic Father===When the expression "[[Jacques LacanName-of-the-Father|the name of the father]] revised the Oedipus complex " first appeared in line with his [[structuralism|structuralistLacan]] attempt to combine psychoanalysis and ’s [[linguisticswork]]. Lacan claimed that the position of , in the father could never be held by the infant. On the one hand the infant must identify with the fatherearly 1950s, in order to participate in it is without [[sexual relationscapital]]. However letters and refers generally to the infant could also never ''become'legislative''' the father as this would imply sexual relations with the mother. Through the dictates on the one hand to be the father and on '''prohibitive''' function of the other not to, the father is elevated to an "'''[[idealsymbolic]]. He is no longer a real material father, but a [[role|functionfather]] of a father. Lacan terms this '''" as the one who lays down the [[Name of the Fathertaboo]]. The same goes for the mother — Lacan no longer talks of a real mother, but simply of on [[desire (Lacanian)|desireincest]], which is a desire to return to in the undifferentiated state of ''being'[[Oedipus complex]]''' together with the mother, before the interference through the Name-of-the-Father.
This desire necessarily lacks something, i.e. it <blockquote>"It is a desire of lack. The father and accordingly in the phallus (not a ''real'' penis, but a representation of [[master]]y) can never be reached, thus he is above or outside Name-of-the language system and cannot be spoken about. All language relies on this absence -Father|name of the phallus from the system of [[significationfather]]. According to this theory, without a phallus 'that we must recognize the support of the 'outside'' of language, nothing symbolic function''in'' language would make sense or could be differentiated. Thus Lacan remodels which, from the linguistic theory dawn of Swiss linguist [[Ferdinand de Saussurehistory]]. It is this idea that forms the basis of much contemporary thought, especially has [[poststructuralismidentified]]. Nothing can be thought that is his person with ''outside'' the [[figure]] of language, but the phallus law''is'' there and therefore structures the whole system of thought accordingly. Oedipus could also be thought of the theme of the story"<ref>{{E}} p.67</ref></blockquote>
===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]]''')
==Freud vs Lacan=Fundamental Signifier=== <!--- versus?, for what versus? --->In [[Lacan]]''s 1955-6 [[Totem and Tabooseminar]]'', [[Sigmund FreudThe Psychoses]] uses , the expression becomes capitalized and hyphenated and takes on a theory more precise [[meaning]]; the [[Name-of -the-Father]] is described as the history, based on Darwin's ''[[theory of evolutionfundamental signifier]], in ''' which there was first a terrible father that the brothers had to kill. Feeling guilty about it, the brothers began to pay homage to the father and founded permits '''[[monotheismsignification]]''' to proceed normally.
In LacanThe [[Name-of-the-Father]] both confers [[identity]] on [[human]] [[subject]]s (by situating [[them]] in a lineage and the [[symbolic]] [[order]]), and [[signification|signifies]] the '''[[Oedipus complex|Oedipal]] [[law|prohibition]]'''s theory, the learning ''''no'''' of the [[languageincest]] leads the child to kill his father as a [[symboltaboo]]. Lacan does not use any historical theory.
This concept allows a new understanding ===Foreclosure===The [[foreclosure]] of this [[fundamental signifier]], or its [[expulsion]] from the [[subject]]'s [[symbolic|symbolic universe]], is said by [[Lacan]] to be the [[mechanism]] that triggers '''[[neurosispsychosis]]'''.
==Psychosis=Paternal Metaphor===[[Image:NOTF.gif|thumb|404px|right|The paternal metaphor]]NeverthelessIn [[another]] work on [[psychosis]], [[Jacques Lacan]] developed this concept with represents the ultimately unsuccessful aim '''[[Oedipus complex]]''' as a '''[[metaphor]]''' ('''[[paternal metaphor]]'''), in which one [[signifier]] (the [[Name-of curing psychosis-the-Father]]) [[metaphor|substitutes]] another (the [[desire]] of the [[mother]]).
==See Also==
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* [[Castration]]
* [[Father]]
* [[Foreclosure]]
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* [[Law]]
* [[Metaphor]]
* [[Oedipus complex]]
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* [[Paternal metaphor]]
* [[Psychosis]]
* [[Seminar]]
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* [[Signification]]
* [[Signifier]]
* [[Symbolic]]
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==References==
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