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====Castration of the Mother====
[[Lacan]] often uses the term "[[castration]]" to speak of the "[[castration]]" -- or , more precisely, the "[[privation]]" -- of the [[mother]].
In the [[first time]] of the [[Oedipus complex]], "the mother is considered, by both sexes, as possessing the phallus, as the phallic mother."<ref>{{E}} p.282</ref>
By promulgating the [[incest taboo]] in the [[second time]], the [[imaginary]] [[father]] is seen to deprive her of this [[phallus]].
====Castration of the Subject====
