Name of the Father

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Who is Name of the Father?

The Name-of-the-Father is a concept that Jacques Lacan developed from his seminar The Psychoses to cover the role of the father in the Symbolic Order. Lacan plays with the similar sound of le nom du père, le non du père, and les non-dupes errent to, in the former case, emphasize the legislative and prohibitive function of the father and, in the latter case, emphasize that "those who do not let themselves be caught in the symbolic deception/fiction and continue to believe their eyes are the ones who err most."

Alan Sheridan, his early translator, wrote that 'In terms of Lacan's three orders, it refers not to the real father, nor to the imaginary father, but to the symbolic father'.

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on July 23, 2013

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