Introducing Lacan: A Graphic Guide (Introducing...) by Darian Leader

Author:Darian Leader [Leader, Darian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781848311831
Publisher: Icon Books Ltd
Published: 2014-12-01T06:00:00+00:00

She may entertain a nostalgia for the lost phallus or hope to receive it in the future from a man. Whereas Lacan puts having on the side of the man, he puts being on the side of the woman. Being the phallus in this context means literally being a signifier, which explains, for example, the propensity to masquerade which Joan Rivière had seen as the key feature of feminity.

It is important to distinguish at least two different conceptions of the phallus in Lacan’s work of the 1950s. Firstly, as an imaginary object, an imaginary lack which can circulate and upon which the sexual games of children are so often based. And, secondly, as a signifier, a symbol of desire, which is different from the question of having or not having a penis. It is literally a symbol, representing the enjoyment that has been lost in getting through the Oedipus complex. Failure to distinguish imaginary and symbolic may lead to the greatest clinical confusion in work with patients.

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