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The [[Freudgenital|genital stage]] defined this first arises between the ages of [[stagethree]] as and five (the final "complete [[development|infantile genital organization" of ]] or [[development|phallic phase]]) and is then interrupted by the [[libidolatency period]], a synthesis of before returning at [[puberty]] (the previously anarchic "[[polymorphous perversity" of the pregenital stages.<ref>Freud. 1940a. SE XXIII. pgenital|genital stage]] proper).155</ref>
==Jacques Lacan====Genitality==Because of this, the [[Lacanconcept]] rejects most of "[[psychoanalytic theorygenital|genitality]] concerning the " came to [[genitalrepresent]] a privileged [[stagevalue]], in [[genitalpsychoanalytic theory]] after [[loveFreud]], etc., calling it an "absurd hymn coming to the represent a [[harmonystage]] of the [[genitalfull]] [[development|psychosexual maturity]]."<ref>{{E}} p.245</ref>
[[Lacan]] rejects most [[psychoanalytic theory]] concerning the [[genital]] [[stage]], [[genital]] [[love]], etc., calling it an "absurd hymn to the [[harmony]] of the [[genital]]."<ref>{{E}} p. 245</ref> According to [[Lacan]], there is [[nothing ]] [[harmonious]] [[about ]] [[genital]]ity. ==Genital Stage==The [[stages]] of [[development|psychosexual development]] are conceived by [[Lacan]] not as [[nature|natural phases]] of [[biology|biological maturation]] but as forms of [[demand]] which are [[structure]]d [[punctuation|retroactively]].<ref>{{S8}} p. 238-46</ref> In the [[development|oral]] and [[development|anal stages]], [[desire]] is eclipsed by [[demand]], and it is only in the [[genital stage]] as a [[third]] [[moment]] which comes after the [[development|oral]] and [[development|anal stages]].<ref>{{S8}} p. 268</ref> However, [[Lacan]]'s [[discussion]] of this [[development|stage]] focuses on what [[Freud]] referred to as the "[[genital|infantile genital organization]]" (also known as the [[phallic phase]]); a [[development|stage]] when the [[child]] [[knows]] only one [[sexual]] [[organ]] (the [[male]] one) and passes through the [[castration complex]]. ===Castration===Thus the [[genital|genital phase]] is only thinkable, [[Lacan]] emphasizes, insofar as it is marked by the [[sign]] of [[castration]]; "[[genital|genital realization]]" can only be achieved on condition that the [[subject]] first assumes his own [[castration]].<ref>{{S4}} p. 219</ref> Furthermore, [[Lacan]] insists that even when the [[perversion|polymorphous perverse]] [[sexuality]] of the [[genital|pregential phases]] comes under the domination of the genital organization, this does not mean that [[pregenital]] [[sexuality]] is abolished. <blockquote>"The most archaic aspirations of the child are... a nucleus that is never completely resolved under some primacy of genitality."<ref>{{S7}} p.93</ref></blockquote> He therefore rejects the concept of a [[development|final stage]] of [[progress|synthesis]]; [[progress|synthesis]] is not possible for [[human]] [[being]]s, in [[Lacan]]'s view, since [[human]] [[subjectivity]] is essentially and irremediably [[split|divided]]. ===Genital Drive===The [[genital|genital drive]] is not listed by [[Lacan]] as one of the [[drive|partial drive]]s. Given that [[Lacan]] argues that every [[drive]] is a [[drive|partial drive]], his [[refusal]] to include the [[genital|genital drive]] among the [[drive|partial drive]]s is tantamount to questioning its [[existence]]. In 1964, [[Lacan]] makes this [[explicit]]. He writes: "the [[partial]] drive, if it [[exists]], is not at all articulated like the other [[drives]].<ref>{{S11}} p. 189</ref> Unlike the other [[drive]]s, the [[genital|genital drive]] (if it [[exist]]s) "finds its [[form]]" on the side of the [[Other]].<ref>{{S11}} p. 189</ref> Furthermore, there is no "[[genital|genital object]]" that would correspond to a supposed [[genital drive]]. ==Genital Love==[[Lacan]] rejects Michael [[Balint]]'s concept of "[[genital|genital love]]". The term indicates a [[development|psychosexual maturity]] in which the two elements of sensuality and affection are completely integrated and harmonized, and in which there is thus no longer any [[ambivalence]]. [[Freud]], however, never used the term, and [[Lacan]] rejects it as completely [[alien]] to [[psychoanalytic theory]]. For [[Lacan]], the [[idea]] of final [[development|psychosexual maturity]] and [[progress|synthesis]] implied in the term "[[genital|genital love]]" is an [[illusion]] which completely overlooks "the barriers and snubs (''Erniedrigungen'') that are so common even in the most fulfilled love relation."<ref>{{E}} p. 245</ref> There is no such [[thing]] as a [[ambivalence|post-ambivalent]] [[object]] relation. ===Oblativity===The concept of [[genital|genital love]] is closely linked to that of "[[genital|oblativity]]", a term used by some [[psychoanalyst]]s to designate a mature form of [[love]] in which one [[loves]] the other person for what he is rather than for what he can give. [[Lacan]] is as critical of the concept of [[genital|oblativity]] as he is of the concept of [[genital|genital love]], viewing it as a form of moralism and a [[betrayal]] of the [[analytic]] discovery of the [[part-object]].<ref>{{S8}} pp. 173-4</ref> He argues that the concept of [[genital|oblativity]] has little to do with [[genital|genitality]] and has far more in common with [[anal]] [[eroticism]]. Following [[Freud]]'s equation between faeces and gifts, [[Lacan]] states that the [[formula]] of [[genital|oblativity]] - "everything for the other" -- shows that it is a [[fantasy]] of the [[obsessional neurosis|obsessional neurotic]].<ref>{{S8}} p. 241</ref>
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* [[Libido]]
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