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These arguments are stated in their most definitive form in Lacan's paper on 'The signification of the phallus'.<ref>Lacan, 1958c</ref>
The phallus is not a fantasy, if by that we mean an [[Imaginary]] effect. Nor is it as such an object (part-, internal, good, bad, etc.). It is even less the organ, penis or clitoris, that it symbolises. . . . The phallus is a signifier. . . . It is the signifier intended to designate as a whole the effects of the signified.<ref>E, 285</ref>
The idea that the phallus is a signifier is taken up again and further developed in the 1957-8 seminar and becomes the principle element of Lacan's theory of the phallus thereafter; the phallus is described as 'the signifier of the desire of the Other',<ref>E, 290</ref> and the signifier of jouissance.<ref>E, 320</ref>
Whereas the [[Castration Complex]] and the Oedipus complex revolve around the [[Imaginary]] phallus, the question of sexual difference revolves around the concludes that, by articulating this with phallocentrism, Lacan has created a phallogocentric system of thought.
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