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The literal meaning of this [[Greek ]] term is '''disappearance'''.  It was first introduced into [[psychoanalysis]] by [[Ernest Jones]], who uses it to mean "the [[disappearance]] of [[sexual]] [[desire]]."<ref>Jones, 1927</ref> For Jones, the [[fear]] of [[aphanisis]] exists in both [[sex]]es, giving rise to the [[castration complex]] in [[male|boys]] and to [[penis envy]] in [[female|girls]].

It was first introduced into psychoanalysis by [[Ernest Jones]], who uses it to mean "Total extinction of the disappearance of capacity for sexual desireenjoyment."<ref>Jones, 1927</ref>

For Jones, the fear of aphanisis exists in both sexes, giving rise to the [[castration complex]] in [[male|boys]] and to [[penis envy]] in [[female|girls]]Extinction de la capacité de jouissance.

For Lacan, aphanisis does not mean the disappearance of [[desireLacan]], but the disappearance of the [[subject]].<ref>see S11, 208</ref> The aphanisis of the subject is the [[fading of the subject]], does not mean the fundamental division - or [[split]] - of the subject which institutes the [[dialecticdisappearance]] of [[desire]].<ref>S11, 221</ref> Far from the disappearance of desire being but the object of [[feardisappearance]], it is precisely what of the [[neuroticsubject]] aims at; the neurotic attempts to shield himself from his desire, to put it aside.<ref>S8, 271{{S11}} 208</ref> Lacan also uses another term, 'fading', in a way that makes it synonymous with the term aphanisis.  Fading (a term which Lacan uses directly in English) refers to the disappearance of the subject in the process of [[alienation]].

The term is used by Lacan when describing the [[mathemesaphanisis]] of the [[drivesubject]] and of is the [[fantasyfading of the subject]]: , the fundamental [[subjectdivision]] 'fades' - or 'disappears' in [[split]] - of the subject which institutes the face of [[demanddialectic]] and in the face of the [[objectdesire]], as is shown by the fact that the subject is barred in these mathemes.<ref>{{S11}} p.221</ref>

Total extinction of [[Lacan]] also uses another term, "[[fading]]," in a way that makes it synonymous with the capacity for sexual enjoymentterm ''[[aphanisis]]''.

Extinction de la capacité de jouissanceThe term is used by [[Lacan]] when describing the [[mathemes]] of the [[drive]] and of [[fantasy]]: the [[subject]] '[[fades]]' or '[[disappears]]' in the face of [[demand]] and in the face of the [[object]], as is shown by the fact that the [[subject]] is [[bar]]red in these [[matheme]]s.