ABSTRACT
Jacques Lacan introduced the Name-of-the-Father as a metaphoric function. The Father, not his signifier but his saying, more precisely, his nominating saying that makes the sinthome, is the existential condition of Borromean knotting. Castration and the specific anxiety attached to it are at the root of all the symptomatic constructions thinkable in the analytic sense. The fact is that perverse jouissance, which is the lot of the parletre, makes do with very diverse symptom-partners. There have always been suggestions, arising from discourse, that are offered in order to fill the empty brackets of our diagram and to designate the desirable. Obviously, there need to be a lot of images in order to captivate interest by imaginary induction and a lot of words to suggest value. Thus, it seems to do for the sexual relation what language does, without prohibition, for the drive: to ensure a subtraction of jouissance that generates appetite.
