
Anxiety (Seminar X), Episode 4
Lectures on Lacan Podcast
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The Paternal Function Is to Create a Barrier That Tells the Child
The paternal function is to create a barrier that tells the child first, you don't have to worry about what this is. It's just grown up stuff. And by introducing that cut or that barrier in a way like contains the child,. Now the opposite move here, Oliver, would be for the dad to push pause on the scary movie and then show the kid the fucked up cat video that the dad was just watching.
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