The Plays of William Shakespeare in perspective, we have only to remind ourselves what Johnson brought to it – an assemblage of almost every qualification we should ideally like to have brought to this kind of work with the single exception of patience... Operating in and through these qualities was his own extensive knowledge of human nature and life. No Shakespearean critic or editor has ever approached him in this respect. John Wain, another of Johnson's biographers, claimed, "There is no better statement of the reason why Shakespeare needs to be edited, and what aims an editor can reasonably set himself" than Johnson's "Proposal". The
Name of the Father Law' (Écrits), and the Symbolic Father is thus not an actual subject but a position in the Symbolic Order. By contrast the Imaginary Father is an imago, the composite of all the imaginary constructs that the subject builds up in fantasy around the figure of the father; and may be construed either as an ideal father or as the opposite, the bad father – what Slavoj Zizek referred to as "the "reverse" of the father, the "anal father" who lurks behind the Name-of-the-Father "qua" bearer of the symbolic law". As to the real father, Lacan stresses how "the ravaging effects