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→Fantasy of the Mutilation of the Penis
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 [[fantasy|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 [[fantasy|fantasies]] of dismemberment coalesce around the specific [[fantasy]] of [[castration]].<ref>{{L1938}} 1938. p.44</ref>
===Symbolic Lack of an Imaginary Object===
