Naming The Father

Author : Jacques Lacan
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 0745659918
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the Names-of-the-Father written by Jacques Lacan and published by Polity. This book was released on 2013-10-07 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What astonishing success the Name-of-the-Father has had! Everyone finds something in it. Who one's father is isn't immediately obvious, hardly being visible to the naked eye. Paternity is first and foremost determined by one's culture. As Lacan said, "The Name-of-the-Father creates the function of the father." But then where does the plural stem from? It isn't pagan, for it is found in the Bible. He who speaks from the burning bush says of Himself that He doesn't have just one Name. In other words, the Father has no proper Name. It is not a figure of speech, but rather a function. The Father has as many names as the function has props. What is its function? The religious function par excellence, that of tying things together. What things? The signifier and the signified, law and desire, thought and the body. In short, the symbolic and the imaginary. Yet if these two become tied to the real in a three-part knot, the Name-of-the-Father is no longer anything but mere semblance. On the other hand, if without it everything falls apart, it is the symptom of a failed knotting. - Jacques-Alain Miller

Author : David Mathis
Publisher : The Good Book Company
ISBN 13 : 1784985546
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Christmas We Didn't Expect written by David Mathis and published by The Good Book Company. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life is full of unexpected twists and turns and this has been particularly so in 2020. But the most unexpected and significant event in the history of the world actually happened over 2000 years ago when God himself became one of us in the person of Jesus Christ. These Advent reflections, written by David Mathis, help us to lift our eyes to wonder of the incarnation and worship the one who came to save us and make our futures certain. Be amazed once more by the unexpected details of Jesus' unique birth and saving work with these short daily devotions and prayers, and renew your worship of our humble, generous and loving Savior.

Author : Jane Yolen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416948953
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Father Knows the Names of Things written by Jane Yolen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-04-27 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rhyming text depicts a father sharing with his child such things as seven words that all mean blue and the name of every kind of cloud.

Author : Mark Arax
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0671010026
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In My Father's Name written by Mark Arax and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1997-08 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On January 2, 1972, Mark Arax's childhood came to a sudden, explosive end when his father was shot to death at his nightclub in Fresno, California. It was one of the most sensational murders in California's heartland, and it was never solved. Mark, only fifteen years old at the time, was left with a legacy of questions: Were the rumors about his father true? Had he led a double life? Was he killed because of his dealings with the underworld? Mark Arax, an award-winning journalist at the Los Angeles Times, now writes a searing, intensely personal account of his twenty-two-year search for answers about his father's life and death, and his own identity. As the oldest child, Mark was thrust into the role of patriarch. His quest for answers began in high school, when he sought out his father's father, an Armenian immigrant. His grandfather opened a window into an old country world full of promise and heartbreak -- and four generations of eccentric family members. Two decades later, Mark uprooted his wife and baby and returned to Fresno under an assumed name to try and determine who killed his father and why. Fearing for his own life, he discovers his father was murdered just before he was going to make a startling disclosure. More than a true-life murder mystery, more than an exploration of family and culture, In My Father's Name is the poignant story of one man's remarkable journey as he uncovers long-hidden secrets about his father, his family, his heritage, and the town he once called home.

Author : Florence Marryat
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Her Father's Name written by Florence Marryat and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Eva Paulino Bueno
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739100929
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Naming the Father written by Eva Paulino Bueno and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Naming the Father is a collection of essays on the subject of fatherhood: its enduring power, its secret ruses, its unsettling provocations. Despite the considerable critical attention devoted to motherhood in literature-and despite the late-twentieth-century focus on patriarchy-there is surprisingly no comparable collection on fatherhood. This volume was born of the conclusion that critics of modern and contemporary literature may comprehend the father too little for presuming to have comprehended patriarchy so much. Naming the Father begins with a series of nonfiction essays that attempts to locate the missing father in the individual experiences of three scholars at various stages of their careers. The following thematically grouped sections recover and discuss fatherhood in fields ranging from Caribbean fiction to African American drama and in the work of authors as diverse as Rebecca West, Anzia Yezierska, William Burroughs, and Stephen Wright, as well as Henry James and James Joyce. A variety of critical approaches, from biographical to deconstructive, activate and engage with the cultural, national, and global implications of fatherhood for the family and for the future of literary studies. Scholars and students of contemporary literature, cultural studies, and gender studies will find this book a fascinating and invaluable collection.

Author : Francois Furstenberg
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101651040
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Name of the Father written by Francois Furstenberg and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-04-24 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this revelatory and genuinely groundbreaking study, François Furstenberg sheds new light on the genesis of American identity. Immersing us in the publishing culture of the early nineteenth century, he shows us how the words of George Washington and others of his generation became America's sacred scripture and provided the foundation for a new civic culture, one whose reconciliation with slavery unleashed consequences that haunt us still. A dazzling work of scholarship from a brilliant young historian, In the Name of the Father is a major contribution to American social history.

Author : Yvonne Riley
Publisher : Moody Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780802429469
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Names of Our Father written by Yvonne Riley and published by Moody Pub. This book was released on 2005-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teaches about God and His divine character and love through exploring His Hebrew names implied throughout the Lord's Prayer.

Author : Lawrence P. Jackson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226389499
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Father's Name written by Lawrence P. Jackson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, seeking to find his grandfather's old home, follows his family history back to his great great grandfather who was born a slave and died a free man with forty acres.

Author : A. J. Quinnell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780752805801
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Name of the Father written by A. J. Quinnell and published by . This book was released on 1997-09-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cold war thriller involving conspiracy and counter-plots between the Vatican and the Kremlin.