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On the Names-of-the-Father (Paperback)
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On the Names-of-the-Father (Paperback)
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What astonishing success the Name-of-the-Father has had! Everyone
finds something in it. Who one's father is isn't immediately
obvious, hardly being visible to the naked eye. Paternity is first
and foremost determined by one's culture. As Lacan said, "The
Name-of-the-Father creates the function of the father." But then
where does the plural stem from? It isn't pagan, for it is found in
the Bible. He who speaks from the burning bush says of Himself that
He doesn't have just one Name. In other words, the Father has no
proper Name. It is not a figure of speech, but rather a function.
The Father has as many names as the function has props. What is its
function? The religious function par excellence, that of tying
things together. What things? The signifier and the signified, law
and desire, thought and the body. In short, the symbolic and the
imaginary. Yet if these two become tied to the real in a three-part
knot, the Name-of-the-Father is no longer anything but mere
semblance. On the other hand, if without it everything falls apart,
it is the symptom of a failed knotting. - Jacques-Alain Miller
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