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  2. The name of the father (French nom du père) is a concept that Jacques Lacan developed from his seminar The Psychoses (1955–1956) to cover the role of the father in the Symbolic Order. Lacan plays with the similar sounds in French of le nom du père (the name of the father), le non du père (the no of the father), and les non-dupes errent ...

  3. The name-of-the-father forces Lacan to adopt a transcendental rather than a genetic approach, and institutes a deconstructible relation between the real and the symbolic. In this chapter, we shall expose Lacan's thought in such a way as to demonstrate its vulnerability to deconstruction.

  4. This law is what Lacan famously dubs the name (nom) of the father, trading on a felicitous homonymy in French between nom (name) and non (the “no!” to incestuous union). When the father intervenes, (at least when he is what Lacan calls the symbolic father) Lacans argument is that he does so less as a living enjoying individual than as ...

  5. The Name-of-the-Father is closely bound up with the superego, the Phallus, the symbolic order, and the Oedipus complex. Note that, according to Lacan, the Name-of-the-Father has a shadow double in the Father-of-Enjoyment. See the Lacan module on the structure of the psyche.

  6. We shall show that Lacan's initial understanding of the notion of the name-of-the-father, heavily influenced by structuralist anthropology, compels him to understand the relation between the symbolic and the real as an opposition. It is this oppositional understanding that must be deconstructed.

  7. Name of the Father, ‘One’ of the Mother: From Beauvoir to Lacan – Radical Philosophy. With introduction by Penelope Deutscher. Françoise Collin. RP 178 (Mar/Apr 2013) ~ Article. Françoise Collin, 'Name of the Father, ‘One’ of the Mother: From Beauvoir to Lacan: With introduction by Penelope Deutscher', Radical Philosophy 178, Mar/Apr 2013. ( pdf)

  8. Lacan's focusing on the father's name is of course to be referred to the Monotheistic, and especially Christian tradition, in which not only can God be called by his name and be represented, but also, in the Christian revelation, be called a father, father of a unique son.