The Name-of-the-Father (1 of 3): “Who’s 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 Name-of-the-Father 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: