The Name of the Father (1 of 3): Whos your daddy

What, psychoanalytically, is a father Why the seal of the President Why have monarchs historically appealed to the Divine Right of Kings Or, more simply: what makes a father a father Lacan s response is blunt: a dead father. We start to think about the NameoftheFather as a symbolic operation that anchors the subject in the symbolic. There is some brief discussion about why Lacanians are so hooked on the signifier. And then we ask: what, from a Lacanian perspective, does it mean to ask: Who s your daddy Link to board: