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CABRAL, André Fernando Gil Alcon. From the Metaphor to the Subversion of the Name-of-the-Father: The Relation between Law and Desire in Lacan's Theory. Analytica [online]. 2020, vol.9, n.16, pp. 1-24. ISSN 2316-5197.

The present text explores the countless results from the "Name-of-the-Father" concept in Lacan's work. Firstly, we go back to the paternal metaphor concept to show that this operation leads to the declension of das Ding to the dignity of an empirical object, which can be understood as the transcendent-missing saturation caused by the lack of a phenomenal object. It happens because the Creative spark of the metaphor, besides giving a new sense to the signifying chain, equally leads to the inverted application of the term sublimation. It was necessary going beyond the metaphor and metonymy operations because the transcendent-missing is sewn by the empirical object, and it made the Psychoanalyst re-signify the father's function. The "Name-of-the-Father" allows acknowledging the emptiness of das Ding within the opacity of its law, based on the subversion of the signifier. Thus, the father's real function must correspond to the union between law and pure desire. Moreover, after the creation of object a, it was possible finding that the father became not just a signifier able to acknowledge the pure desire inside the law, but also a necessary operator to produce the ascension of the empirical object to the dignity of the Thing.

Palabras clave : Name-of-the-Father; Das Ding; Object a; Paternal metaphor.

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