It is in the name of the father that we must recognize the support of the symbolic function which, from the dawn of history, has identified his person with the figure of the law. This conception enables us to distinguish clearly, in the analysis of a case, the unconscious effects of this function from the narcissistic relations, or even from the real relations that the subject sustains with the image and the action of the person who embodies it; and there results from this a mode of comprehension that will tend to have repercussions on the very way in which the interventions of the analyst are conducted (Lacan 74).
Lacan, Jacques. “The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis.“ Ecrits:A Selection. Translated by Alan Sheridan. Routledge, 2001, pp 33-125.