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→The end of the prepoedipal phase
However, at some point something else intervenes which introduces a discordant note of [[anxiety]] into the [[game]].
This 'something else' is the first stirring of the [[drive]], which manifests itself in [[''infantile masturbation]]''.<ref>{{S4}} p.225-6</ref>
The intervention of the real organ in this way transforms the [[imaginary]] [[triangle]] into a [[death|deadly]] [[game]], an [[impossible]] task, in which the [[child]] is completely prey to the arbitrary [[desire]] of the [[omnipotent]] [[devouring]] [[mother]].<ref>{{S4}} p.69, 195</ref>
The [[child]] is only saved from this [[death|deadly]] [[game]] by the intervention of the [[father]] as a [[fourth]] term, the [[father]] who rightfully claims possession of the [[phallus]] on the basis of a [[symbolic]] [[law]].
===Perversion===
