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→No Signifier of Sexual Difference in the Symbolic Order
The only sexual signifier is the [[phallus]], and there is no "female" equivalent of this signifier:
<blockquote>"Strictly speaking there is no symbolization of woman's sex as such... the phallus is a symbol to which there is no correspondent, no equivalent. It's a matter of a dissymetry in the signifier."<ref>{{S3}} p.176</ref></blockquote>
Hence the [[phallus]] is "the pivot which completes ''in both sexes'' the questioning of their sex by the castration complex."<ref>{{E}} p.198</ref>
