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The phallus which circulates between mother and child posits the first dialectic in the child's life which, though imaginary, frames the symbolic. An imaginary element is mobilized - the phallus becomes an imaginary signifier. The phallus is a symbolic object; it is a signifier. The doctrine becomes systematized in ‘’Les formations de l'inconscient’’. In the 1960s the phallus is described as "the signifier of the desire of the Other" and the signifier of ''[[jouissance]]''. Also the notion of ‘’[[objet a]]’’, the cause of [[desire]], will be added to that of the phallus.

==Bibliography==

‘’’Le séminaire, Livre IV: La relation d'objet et les structures freudiennes’’’. French: (texte établi par Jacques-Alain Miller), Paris: Seuil, 1994. English: unpublished.