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Name of the Father. 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 ...
Schreber had seen through his educator father and foreclosed the Name of the Father with the result that his nodal structure was vulnerable to a psychotic collapse (Lacan, 2006b, p. 484). As for Joyce’s father, he had taught his son nothing, apart, perhaps, from singing and storytelling (Lacan, 1975-76, p. 127; Bowker, 2011, pp. 21-22).
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The name for the very first symbol is therefore, ‘the name of the father’ (le nom du père). That a certain consanguineous group has acquired a family name makes it possible to exchange women between families. Thus the origin of the symbolic order, the ‘transcendental signifier’, is the ‘name-of-the-father’.
dened as the subject who “forecloses” the Name of the Father, thus explaining the traditional view that a psychotic lives in a compromised relationship to the symbolic order. As with other Lacanian lexical addi-tions to psychoanalysis, the meaning and importance of the Name of the Father changes over the course of Lacan’s career.
Jacques Lacan (1901—1981) It would be fair to say that there are few twentieth century thinkers who have had such a far-reaching influence on subsequent intellectual life in the humanities as Jacques Lacan. Lacan’s “return to the meaning of Freud ” profoundly changed the institutional face of the psychoanalytic movement internationally.
Dec 9, 2023 · Footnote 40 In this sense, his argument supports my assumption that when Lacan presents the father imago, the ego ideal and later on also the symbolic identification, the concept of the Name-of-the-Father and symbolic father, he in fact raises the father figure to an abstract-ideal level that is far removed from Freud’s concept of the father ...
Jun 30, 2022 · The Name of the Father is one of those terms that people bandy about intentionally ignoring the apparent Christian bias in the phrase. Yes, Lacan was convinced it was a phrase that signified the universality of the master signifier; Lacan’s convictions did not...
