ABSTRACT
Sigmund Freud continues advancing the formulation in Moses and Monotheism, while also developing a more fully symbolic template for law. Jacques Lacan conceived the phallus, because it forbids and separates and introduces lack, as desire's signifier, as the name of desire, and in this sense, the phallus belongs to neither gender but is available to be claimed by all. A feminine law would "enshrine" the ambiguous presence of open space and exist in paradoxical tension with a paternal law, which wields the phallus in confronting the subject not only with castration but also with the birth—and constraints—of her desire. The primacy of no law is feminine law. The father's "no" provides the boundary setting opening to feminine law, which acknowledges the primacy of "no rule," of a genuine space for free speech and its erotic discourse.
