CARVALHO, Glória Maria Monteiro de. The name of the father in the contemporary world: the violence in the relationship between the subject and the absence. Rev.Mal-Estar Subj []. 2013, 13, 3-4, pp.555-572. ISSN 1518-6148.

The starting point is the proposition that the constitution of subjectivity in psychoanalytic perspective is an act of violence that has a social-historical dimension. According to Freud, the truth of man is the father's truth and, in Lacanian reading, the father's laws are language laws: metaphor and metonymy. It is, accordingly, a violence of language on the human being, with historical and social effects. Thus one can admit at least three dimensions of such an act of violence of the signifier on the individual in the constitution of his/her subjectivity. From this perspective, the first dimension of violence would be the capture of the child's body by language and the second one would be the symbolic death of his father. The child need to kill (symbolically) the father, in order to confront the structural lack - that is, the third dimension of violence - and the Name of the Father, who supports the subject in relation to such a lack. In the contemporary world, the confrontation with the lack seems to be increasingly difficult. In turn, this difficulty could be due, for example, to the technology based on the belief attributed to the scientific discourse, highlighting the social effects of this belief in the actuality of human relations.

: name of the father; contemporaneity; language; violence; absence.

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