To do without / to make use of it

In 1970, Lacan argues that he always wanted someone to make a hole in the paternal metaphor. He himself had made this attempt a few years earlier by pluralizing the Name-of-the-Father, but he was “gagged”,...

The father is a function of the transmission of lack, a cultural function. It presupposes the contradiction between the necessity of a mythical father outside castration and the castration of every possible man. Without this...

Lacan said that we need psychoanalysts to survive the real. We have science, but the problem is that it decided to plant its roots in a constancy observable in the universe where things have a...

Among the fathers that the Bible celebrates, there is one – Noah, whose story is quite surprising. He has set many biblical commentators and exegetes to work. Chosen by God as the saviour of the human...

Meanings of the word patriarch The word patriarch (πατριάρχης) is composed of the words “πατριά” (patria) and “αρχή” (archè). The meanings of patria vary, but its radical comes from the word “πατέρας” (patéras, the father)....

Lacan’s Seminar of 1975-1976, entitled The Sinthome, is entirely devoted to James Joyce, Irish writer of the 20th Century. In this Seminar, on numerous occasions, Lacan affirms that what brought Joyce to his desire of being...

The Name-of-the-Father as an operator that regulates jouissance is born in Lacan on the side of metaphor and then goes on to be conceived as a logical function and, finally, as a knot or symptomatic...

« William Blake es uno de los hombres más extraños de la literatura. Fue el menos contemporáneo de los hombres. » J. L. Borges The striving of humans towards God the father is eternal. He deceives. And...

We live in an era driven by the union of the market and technoscience, which has produced a radical effect on subjectivity : the loss of belief in the order offered by the Name of the...

I would like to show three ways in which Lacan emphasised the irreducible place of the father. The father who wows (épate) The first is a formula which is particularly amusing in French. It is...