Abstract:
According to Freud, the Oedipus complex and the castration are crucial factors to think about the subject’s entry into the “world” of desire, law and culture. Lacan provided a new reading of Freud’s Oedipus, pluralizing the Name-of-the-Father and bringing to the discussion the singular ways of the presence of the paternal function, which is pluralized in various names. Lacan shows that castration is not an oedipal operation, but rather an inscription into language. In this paper, we address the pluralization of the Names-of-the Father, through the generalization of castration.
Keywords:
father’s names; castration; Oedipus; simbolic function.