“. . . le non/le nom du père is a psychological concept originally articulated by Jacques Lacan, here articulated by me: it is the forgetting of fragmentation (le non, which disallows objective dependence), the remembering, the recognition of integrity (le nom, grants subjective interdependence)—a restoration of intact psychic structures which properly boundaried with integral subjectivity are allowed to resonate, balance, and blend.“
Reflections on and around the month or so it took me to process Father’s Day in 2020.
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