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#REDIRECT ==Sigmund Freud== In the [[Talkphallic phase]], the genitals become the focus of sexual stimulation.In infantile sexuality, "only one genital, namely the male one, comes into account. What is present, therefore, is not the primacy of the genitals, but the primacy of the ''phallus''.<ref>Freud 1991e [1923]:Unsorted2308</ref> It is the [[presence]] or [[absence]] of the [[penis]] that forces the [[child]] to recognize that [[boys]] and [[girls]] are [[sexual difference|different]].<!-- To begin with, Freud postulated that both sexes disavow the absence of the woman's penis and believe they have seen it, even if it is not there. Eventually, however, they are forced to admit its absence and they account for this absence through the idea of castration. -->The [[child]] accounts for the [[absence]] of the [[girl]]'s [[penis]] through the idea of [[castration]]. The [[boy]] sees the [[woman]] as a [[castrated]] [[man]] and the [[girl]] has to accept that she has not got and never will have a [[penis]]. ==Jacques Lacan== =====Father and Mother-Child=====It is through the intervention of the [[Name-of-the-Father]] that the [[imaginary]] [[dual relation|unity]] between child and [[mother]] is [[broken]]. The [[Name-of-the-Father]] is a [[symbolic]] function that intrudes into the illusory world of the [[child]] and breaks the [[imaginary]] [[dual relation|dyad]] of the mother and [[child]]. =====Father's Phallus=====The [[child]] assumes that the [[father]] is one that [[satisfies]] the [[mother]]'s [[desire]] and possesses the [[phallus]]. The [[father]] is assumed to possess something that the [[child]] [[lack]]]s and it is this that the [[mother]] [[desire]]s. ====="Symbolic" Father and "Actual" Father=====It is important here though not to confuse the [[Name-of-the-Father]] with the actual [[father]]. (The [[Name-of-the-Father]] is a [[symbolic]] function that intrudes into the illusory world of the [[child]] and breaks the [[imaginary]] [[dual relation|dyad]] of the mother and [[child]]. ) PHALLIC SIGNIFIERn this sense, argues Lacan, the Oedipus complex involves an element of [[[substitution]], that is to say, the substitution of one signifier, the desire of the mother, for another, the Name-of-the-Father. It is through this initial act of substitution that the process of signification begins and child enters the symbolic order as a subject of lack. It is also for this reason that Lacan describes the process of symbolization itself as 'phallic'. It is through the Name-of-the-Father that the phallus is installed as the central organizing signifier of the unconscious. The phallus is the 'original' lost object, but only insofar as no one possessed it in the first place. The phallus, therefore, is not like any other signifier, it is the signifier of absence and does not 'exist' in its own right as a thing, an object or a bodily organ. ==Castration== =====Castration Anxiety=====[[Castration]] involves not just an [[anxiety]] about losing one's [[penis]] but simultaneously the recognition of ''[[lack]]'' or ''[[absence]]''. The [[child]] is concerned about losing its own [[penis]] and simultaneously recognizes that the [[mother does not have a [[penis]]. The idea of the penis, therefore, becomes metonymically linked to the recognition of lack. It is in this sense that Lacan argues that the phallus is not simply the penis; it is the penis plus the recognition of absence or lack. Castration is not the fear that one has already lost, in the case of girls, or will lose, in the case of boys, one's penis but rather the symbolic process of giving up the idea that one can be the phallus for the mother. The intervention of the father distances the child from the mother and also places the phallus forever beyond its reach. If the [[symbolic]] [[father]] is seen to possess the [[phallus]], then the [[child]] can only become a [[subject]] itself in the [[symbolic]] [[order]] by renouncing the [[imaginary]] [[phallus]].
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