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The bond between subject and their first name(s) is initiated in the act of naming, and is marked by an expectation which, for the named person, is like a call to exist in a certain way. So the first name, as a term which predates the subject, reveals identity issues that emerge in a certain tension between an identity that the subject is required to incarnate, and the one that they would create themselves. By appropriating the reasons why the subject recognizes themselves as an heir (often unknowingly), the first name reveals this transmission process, which psychologically situates the subject in their filiation.