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==Sexual Difference==
[[Freud]] does use the adjective "[[phallic]]" more frequently, such as in the expression the "[[phallic phase]]", but again this implies no rigorous distinction between the terms "[[phallus]]" and "[[phallus|penis]]", since the [[phallic phase]] denotes a stage in [[development]] in which the [[child]] ([[boy]] or [[girl]]) knows only one [[biology|genital organ]] - the [[phallus|penis]].
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<!-- While this terminological distinction is not found in [[Freud]]'s [[Works of Sigmund Freud|work]], it responds to the logic implicit in [[Freud]]'s formulations on the [[phallus|penis]]. For example, when [[Freud]] speaks of a [[symbolic]] equation between the [[phallus|penis]] and the [[baby]] which allows the [[girl]] to appease her [[penis envy]] by having a [[child]], it is clear that he is not talking about the [[biology|real organ]].<ref>{{F}} "[[Works of Sigmund Freud|On the Transformations of Instinct, as Exemplified in Anal Eroticism]]." 1917c. [[SE]] XVII, 127</ref> It can be argued, then, that [[Lacan]]'s terminological innovation simply clarifies certain distinctions that were already implicit in [[Freud]]'s [[Works of Sigmund Freud|work]]. -->
=Jacques Lacan=
[[Lacan]] generally prefers to use the term "[[phallus]]" rather than "[[phallus|penis]]" in order to emphasize the fact that what concerns [[psychoanalytic theory]] is not the [[biology|male genital organ]] in its [[biology|biological]] [[reality]] but the role that this organ plays in [[fantasy]]. Hence [[Lacan]] usually reserves the term "[[phallus|penis]]" for the [[biology|biological organ]], and the term "[[phallus]]" for the [[imaginary]] and [[symbolic]] functions of this [[biology|organ]].
<!-- =====Freud's Work===== --><!-- While this terminological distinction is not found in [[Freud]]'s [[Works of Sigmund Freud|work]]For Lacan, it responds to the logic implicit in [[importance of Freud]]'s formulations on the [[phallus|insight into infantile sexuality was not whether or not girls have a penis]]. For exampleand boys fear that theirs will be cut off, when [[Freud]] speaks but the function of a [[symbolic]] equation between the [[phallus|penis]] as a signifier of lack and sexual difference. The phallus in Lacanian theory should not be confused with the [[baby]] which allows the [[girl]] to appease her [[penis envy]] by having a [[child]]male genital organ, although it clearly carries these connotations. The phallus is clear that he is not talking about the [[biology|real organ]].<ref>{{F}} "[[Works of Sigmund Freud|On the Transformations of Instinct, as Exemplified first and foremost a signifier and in Anal Eroticism]]." 1917c. [[SE]] XVII, 127</ref> It can be argued, then, that [[Lacan]]'s terminological innovation simply clarifies certain distinctions that were already implicit in [[Freud]]'s [[Works of Sigmund Freud|work]]system a particularly privileged signifier. -->
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