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A Father (n.) with ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠mother and child becomes the simulacrum of capital's images: Mister Capital, Madame Earth, and their child the Worker.

A Father (n.) comes ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠"first" only because the social investment comes first: father and child are simultaneously plunged into one social field.

A Father (n.) must ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠be surpassed and never can be: as Freud wrote, everything unfolds as if going beyond him were the essential thing — and forever forbidden.

A Father (n.) turns ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠up everywhere in psychoanalysis — in Flechsig, in God, in the sun — and Freud says that monotony is not his fault but the fault of sexuality's stubborn symbolism.

A Father (n.) like ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠God is a question born of abstraction: it assumes the link between man and nature already broken, so that man must be produced by something outside both.

A Father (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠where Oedipus starts: "isn't that what you want, to kill me and sleep with your mother?" — it is a father's idea before anyone else's; thus Laius.

A Father (n.) and ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠mother exist only as fragments, never organized into a figure that could represent the unconscious; they shatter into pieces that square off with the soldier, the cop, the occupier, the boss, in hand-to-hand combat.