Who made the term 'the Name of the Father' famous?
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Correct answer: B. Jacques Lacan
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Lacan's le nom/non du père (Seminar III, The Psychoses, 1955–56) is the paternal law that founds the Symbolic order; its foreclosure produces psychosis.
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