Sacrifice in psychoanalytic theory, based on the Freudian-Lacanian field of study, is one of the consequences of the paradoxes of the father. One must go back to the myth of the sacrifice of Abraham to clarify the question of the paradoxes of the Names of the Father and the failure of the Paternal Metaphor. We hold that the Names-of-the-Father cannot be reduced to the Paternal Metaphor. As the sacrifice is an answer to the lack of the Other, and with which one intends to capture it, this offer intends to guarantee that the other exists, either through jouissance or through desire. We discuss this offer of sacrifice in the myth of Abraham and Isaac and its consequences in the clinic of desire and jouissance.
Sacrifice; Names-of-the-Father; object a; voice; jouissance; desire of the other