ABSTRACT
The person of the governor is in part linked with paternity and especially with Rousseau himself. It is in the same thrust as this passage, when Rousseau admits his regret for not having raised his own children, that he defines the qualities of a good governor. The governor is a Name of the father subject supposed of knowledge. The fiction of the governor, figure of the Name of the father Subject Supposed of Knowledge, makes good a shortcoming of the Name of the Father and can be considered as an element of the delusion which reveals the insufficiency of this making good. The shadow of the Name of the father subject supposed of knowledge can be found in a clinical domain in which it is particularly important to make the distinction between Name of the Father and subject supposed of knowledge, that of psychoanalysis with children.
