"[[Name-==Translator's Note==This concept derives, in a sense, from the mythical, symbolic father of-the-Father]] ([[Fr]]. Freud's ''[[Nom-du-Père]]Totem and Taboo'') When the expression "[[Name-of-the-Father|the name . In terms of the father]]" first appeared in [[Lacan]]’s work, in the early 1950s's three orders, it is without capital letters and refers generally not to the "[[prohibition|prohibitive role]]" of the "[[symbolic]] [[real father]]" as the one who lays down the [[incest]] [[taboo]] in the [[Oedipus complex]]. <blockquote>"It is in the 'name of , nor to the imaginary father' that we must recognize (the support of paternal imago), but to the symbolic function whichfather. Freud, from the dawn of historysays Lacan, has identified his person with the figure of the law.was led irresistibly "<ref>{{E}} p.67</ref></blockquote> -- From to link the beginning [[Lacan]] plays on the homophony appearance of ''le nom du père'' (the name signifier of the father) and ''le 'non' du père'' (Father, as the 'no' author of the father)Law, to death, even to emphasize the legislative and prohibitive function murder of the [[symbolic]] [[father]]. --- A few years later, in the [[seminar]] on the [[psychoses]]Father, thus showing that although this murder is the expression becomes capitalized and hyphenated and takes on a more precise meaning; the [[Name-fruitful moment of-the-Father]] is now debt through which the [[fundamental signifier]] which permits [[significationsubject]] binds himself for life to proceed normally. This [[fundamental signifier]] both confers identity on the [[subjectlaw]] (it names him, positions him within the [[symbolic order]]) and signifies the [[Oedipal]] [[prohibitionFather]], the 'no' of the incest taboo. If in so far as he signifies this [[signifierLaw]] , is [[foreclosed]] (not included in certainly the [[symbolic orderdead]]), the result is [[psychosisFather]]. -- In another work on "<ref>{{L}} "[[psychosis]], [[Lacan]] represents On a Question Preliminary to Any Possible Treatment of the [[Oedipus complex]] as Psychosis|D'une question preliminaire a [[metaphortout traitement possible de la psychose]] (." ''[[paternal metaphorÉcrits]])''. Paris: Seuil, in which one 1966: 531-83 ["[signifier]] (the [[Name-On a Question Preliminary to Any Possible Treatment of Psychosis|On a question preliminary to any possible treatment of-the-Fatherpsychosis]]) substitutes another (the ." Trans. [[desireAlan Sheridan]] of the ''[[motherÉcrits: A Selection]])''. London: Tavistock, 1977; New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1977: 179-225].</ref>
castrating father of the '''[[Oedipus complex]]''' who personifies the taboo on incest.
<blockquote>“It is in the ‘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. p.67</ref></blockquote>
In [[Lacan]]'s 1955-6 [[seminar]], [[The Psychoses]], the [[name-of-the-father]] is described as the fundamental [[signifier]] that both confers [[identity]] on [[human]] [[subject]]s by situating them in a lineage and the [[symbolic]] [[order]], and reiterates the [[prohibition]] on [[incest]].
The 'No' of the [[Father]] to the [[desire]] of the [[child]] for [[incest]]uous relations with the [[mother]].
The 'No' of the [[Father]] to the [[child]]'s [[incest]]uous [[desire]] for the [[mother]].
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