Seminar XI, Episode 1
Lectures on Lacan Podcast
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The Name of the Father Is the No of the Father, the No That Says Welcome to the Symbolic
In French, the word for name and the word for no sound exactly the same. One of the conditions for psychosis according to Lacon is a utter rejection of this prohibitive enunciation by the father. The neurotic accepts their castration, the psychotic refuses to even acknowledge that a prohibition was uttered. That's why psychotics act the way they do because they fundamentally rejected the primordial signifier No.
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