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Name-of-the-Father

Jacques Lacan EN

The master signifier representing the incest taboo and symbolic law, enabling the child’s separation from the mother and entry into the symbolic order.

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The master signifier representing the incest taboo and symbolic law, enabling the child’s separation from the mother and entry into the symbolic order. In the classical formulation, the Name-of-the-Father organizes the Oedipus complex and situates the subject within the network of language and law. In later readings, the concept is reconsidered less as a fixed signifier than as an 'act of faith' in the benevolence of the Other and a gesture of attachment that separates the subject from objet a.