What's in a Name?

A name always bears a symbolic mandate. As soon as false pretenders appear questions arise as to the symbolic mandate's power its validity and justification. Names refer to genealogies yet thereby always involve a certain distribution of power. To arrogate a name is to arrogate power. There is a claim to power in every name in assuming the social role that goes with it in transmitting symbolic legacy in social impact in genealogical inscription. The story of false pretenders entails the moment of bemusement - one's feeling that really one is always a false pretender as there's no way one could inhabit a name legitimately naturally feeling fully justified bearing the name one bears. No sufficient grounds can ever substantiate it; no name is ever covered by the Leibnizian principle of sufficient reason. The feeling of being an impostor false pretender to a name isn't personal sentiment or idiosyncrasy; it's a structural feeling accompanying names - their shadow and effect.