Today’s..impasse of..authority..is..the..father’s growing reluctance to accept the symbolic mandate “father”. ..The true universality is not that of the ideal being-a-father, but that of failure itself.

SLAVOJ ZIZEK on ‘being-a-father’ as an ideal which 'fathers endeavor to approach and’ which they necessarily fail to achieve http://ift.tt/1Sxjxoh