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He dedicates a few paragraphs to it in his article on the family, where he follows Freud in stating that castration is first and foremost a [[fantasy]] of the mutilation of the penis.
Lacan links this fantasy with a whole series of fantasies of bodily dismemberment which originate in the [[image]] of the [[fragmented body]]; this image is contemporary with the [[mirror stage]] (six to eighteen months), and it is only much later that these fantasies of dismemberment coalesce around the specific fantasy of castration.<ref>Lacan, {{L}} 1938: . p.44</ref>
It is not until the mid-1950s that the castration complex comes to play a prominent role in Lacan's teaching, primarily in [[the seminar of 1956-7]].
