==Jacques Lacan==
[[Lacan]] -- who talks more often about "[[castration]]'" than the "[[castration complex]]" -- does not discuss the [[castration complex]] very much in his early work.
LacanHe dedicates a few paragraphs to it in his article on the family, who talks more often about 'where he follows [[Freud]] in stating that [[castration]]' than 'is first and foremost a [[fantasy]] of the castration complex', does not discuss mutilation of the castration complex very much in his early work[[penis]].
He dedicates [[Lacan]] links this [[fantasy]] with a few paragraphs to it whole series of fantasies of bodily dismemberment which originate in his article on the family, where he follows Freud in stating that castration [[image]] of the [[fragmented body]]; this image is first and foremost a contemporary with the [[fantasymirror stage]] (six to eighteen months), and it is only much later that these fantasies of dismemberment coalesce around the mutilation specific fantasy of the peniscastration.<ref>{{L}} 1938. p. 44</ref>
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>{{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]].
Lacan's account of the castration complex is thus raised out of the dimension of simple [[biology]] or anatomy: 'It is insoluble by any reduction to biological givens.'<ref>{{E}} p.282</ref>
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Following Freud, Lacan argues that the castration complex is the pivot on which the whole Oedipus complex turns.<ref>{{S4}} p.216</ref>
