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→The Mother: Real, Symbolic and Imaginary
[[Freud]] showed how the [[child]] attempts to cope with this loss by symbolizing the [[[mother]]'s [[presence]] and [[absence]] in games and [[language]].
[[Lacan]] regards this primary [[symbolization]] as the [[chldchild]]'s first steps into the [[symbolic order."<ref>{{S4}} p.67-</ref>
The [[mother]] which itnerests [[psychoanalytic theory]] is thus above all the [[symbolic]] [[mother]], the [[mother]] in her role as the primordial [[Other]].
