Interdiction by the Father
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Against Understanding, Volume 1: Commentary and Critique in a Lacanian Key · Bruce Fink · p.181
INTER(OED)DICTIONS
Theoretical move: Through the clinical case of "Slater," Fink demonstrates how a weak or absent paternal interdiction produces a subject who unconsciously stages scenarios in which the Other (the father) discovers his secrets, thereby soliciting from the father the very prohibitive intervention the father structurally failed to provide—a failed paternal function that leaves the subject without the symbolic protection and castrating cut the Name of the Father ought to deliver.
There seems to have been something of a lack of interdiction in Slater's childhood