ABSTRACT
This section explores the links between the Freudian Oedipus complex and Lacan’s concept of the names-of-the-father. It shows how the symbolic law of the unconscious, which is called the law of the prohibition of incest, takes the form of sexual difference. By emphasizing how ‘names-of-the-father’ have to do with something that cannot be represented in the law or by the law, this section also introduces how the form of sexual difference is tied to the fiction inherent to language. It highlights how ‘man’ and ‘woman’ are signifiers linked to the symbolic law of the unconscious. This section develops how the unconscious law has to do with the necessity of every subject to find signifiers to help hypothesize the existence of a structure.
