Abstract
The biblical story of the binding of Isaac raises a question about the meaning of the paternal function. On the basis of the brief seminar of the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan about the Names of the Father and of his interpretation of the figure of Abraham in Genesis 22, Jean-Daniel Causse points out the anthropological and theological issues of a symbolical fatherhood that structures an alliance only by the link of the word. He shows notably the ongoing interest of Abraham who must consecrate ritually the death of an archaic figure, which is both ancestor and god, in order that his own fatherhood not dominate Isaac but offer a new history to a son promised to the future.
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