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The ==Jacques Lacan=====Symbolic Father===When the expression “the "[[Name-of-the-Father|the name of the father,” when it ]]" first appeared in Lacan’s [[Lacan]]’s [[work]], in the early 1950s, referred it is without [[capital]] letters and refers generally to the “[[prohibition|'''legislative''' and '''prohibitive role]]” ''' function of the “"'''[[symbolic]] [[father]]” '''" as the one who lays down the [[incesttaboo]] on [[tabooincest]] in the '''[[oedipus Oedipus complex]]'''.

<blockquote>“It "It is in the ‘name '[[Name-of -the father’ -Father|name of the father]]' that we must recognize the support of the '''symbolic function ''' which, from the dawn of [[history]], has [[identified ]] his person with '''the [[figure ]] of the law'''.”"<ref>Lacan, Jacques. Écrits. {{E}} p.67</ref></blockquote>

===Legislative and Prohibitive Function===The “No” 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===-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]]''')

===Fundamental Signifier===In the French language[[Lacan]]'s 1955-6 [[seminar]], [[The Psychoses]], the expression “the name becomes capitalized and hyphenated and takes on a more precise [[meaning]]; the [[Name-of-the-Father]] is described as the '''[[fundamental signifier]]''' which permits '''[[signification]]''' to proceed normally. The [[Name-of -the father” -Father]] both confers [[identity]] on [[human]] [[subject]]s (“’’le nom du père’’”by situating [[them]] in a lineage and the [[symbolic]] [[order]]) , and [[signification|signifies]] the '''[[Oedipus complex|Oedipal]] [[law|prohibition]]''', the ''''no'''' of the [[incest]] [[taboo]]. ===Foreclosure===The [[foreclosure]] of this [[fundamental signifier]], or its [[expulsion]] from the [[subject]]'s [[symbolic|symbolic universe]], is phonetically similar said by [[Lacan]] to be the [[mechanism]] that triggers '''[[psychosis]]'''. ===Paternal Metaphor===[[Image:NOTF.gif|thumb|404px|right|The paternal metaphor]]In [[another]] work on [[psychosis]], [[Lacan]] represents the '''[[Oedipus complex]]''' as a '''[[metaphor]]''' ('''[[paternal metaphor]]'''), in which one [[signifier]] (the expression “the ‘no’ [[Name-of -the father” -Father]]) [[metaphor|substitutes]] another (“’’le ‘non’ du père’’”the [[desire]] of the [[mother]]). ==See Also=={{See}}* [[Castration]]* [[Father]]* [[Foreclosure]] ||* [[Law]]* [[Metaphor]] * [[Oedipus complex]]||* [[Paternal metaphor]]* [[Psychosis]] * [[Seminar]]||* [[Signification]]* [[Signifier]] * [[Symbolic]]{{Also}} ==References==<div style="font-size:11px" class="references-small"><references/></div> [[category:Freudian psychology]][[Category:Linguistics]][[Category:Language]][[Category:Symbolic]]{{OK}}__NOTOC__ __NOEDITSECTION__