Changes
The LinkTitles extension automatically added links to existing pages (https://github.com/bovender/LinkTitles).
====Infantile Theory=Phallic Phase===The [[castration complex]] affects both [[sex]]es because its [[appearance]] is closely linked with the [[castration complex|phallic phase]], a moment of [[development|psychosexual development]] when the [[child]], whether [[boy]] or [[girl]], [[knows]] only one [[penis|genital organ]] - the [[male]] one. This [[phase]] is also known as the [[castration complex|infantile genital organisation]] because it is the first moment when the [[drive|partial drive]]s are [[unified]] under the primacy of the [[genital]] organs. It thus anticipates the [[genital|genital organisation]] proper which arises at [[development|puberty]], when the [[subject]] is aware of both the [[male]] and the [[female]] [[biology|sexual organ]]s.<ref>{{F}} "[[Works of Sigmund Freud|The Infantile Genital Organization]]." 1923. [[SE]] XIX. p. 141</ref>
===Oedipus Complex===[[Freud]] first described argued that the [[castration complex]] in 1908, arguing that is closely linked to the [[childOedipus complex]], on discovering the anatomical difference between the sexes (the [[presence]] or [[absence]] of the [[penis]]), makes the assumption but that this difference is due to the its [[femalerole]]'s [[penis]] having been cut off.<ref>{{F}} "On in the Sexual Theories of Children. 1908. SE IX. p.207</ref> The [[castration Oedipus complex]] is thus the moment when one infantile theory (everyone has a [[penis]]) is replaced by a new one ([[female]]s have been castrated). The consequences of this new infantile theory are different in for the [[boy]] and in the [[girl]]. The In the [[boycase]] fears that his own [[penis]] will be cut off by of the [[father]] ([[castration]] [[anxietyboy]]), while the [[girl]] sees herself as already castrated (by the [[mother]]) and attempts to deny this or to compensate for it by seeking a [[child]] as a substitute for the [[penis]] ([[penis envy]]). ====Phallic Phase====The castration complex affects both sexes because its appearance is closely linked with the [[phallic phase]], a moment of psychosexual [[development]] when the child, whether boy or girl, knows only one genital organ - the male one. This phase is also known as the infantile genital organisation because it is the first moment when the partial drives are unified under the primacy point of the genital organs. It thus anticipates the genital organisation proper which arises at puberty, when the subject is aware of both the male and the female sexual organs.<ref>{{F}} "The Infantile Genital Organization." 1923. SE XIX. p.141</ref> ====Oedipus Complex==== Freud argued that the castration complex is closely linked to exit from the [[Oedipus Complexcomplex]], but that its role in the Oedipus complex is different for the boy and the girl. In the case of the boy, the castration complex is the point of exit from the Oedipus complex, its terminal crisis; because of his [[fear ]] of [[castration (]] -- often aroused by a [[fear|threat) ]] -- the [[boy ]] renounces his [[desire]] for the [[mother ]] and thus enters the [[development|latency period]]. In the case of the [[girl]], the [[castration complex ]] is the point of entry into the [[Oedipus complex]]; it is her resentment of the [[mother]], whom she blames for depriving her of the [[penis]], that causes her to redirect her [[libido|libidinal]] desires [[desire]]s away from the [[mother ]] and onto the [[father]]. Because of this [[sexual difference|difference]], in the case of the [[girl ]] the [[Oedipus complex ]] has no definitive terminal crisis comparable to the [[boy]]'s.<ref>{{F}} "[[Works of Sigmund Freud|The Dissolution of the Oedipus Complex.]]," 1924. [[SE ]] XIX p.173</ref> ====Conclusion====Freud came to see the castration complex as a universal phenomenon, one which is rooted in a basic 'rejection of femininity' (Ablehnung der Weiblich-keit). It is encountered in every subject, and represents the ultimate limit beyond which psychoanalytic treatment cannot go.<ref>{{F}} "Analysis Terminable and Interminable." 1937. SE XXIII. p.211</ref>
<!-- ===Treatment=== -->
<!-- [[Freud]] came to see the [[castration complex]] as a [[universal]] phenomenon, one which is rooted in a basic "[[rejection]] of [[femininity]]" (''Ablehnung der Weiblich-keit''). It is encountered in every [[subject]], and represents the ultimate [[limit]] beyond which [[psychoanalytic treatment]] cannot go.<ref>{{F}} "[[Works of Sigmund Freud|Analysis Terminable and Interminable]]," 1937. [[SE]] XXIII. p. 211</ref>-->
==Jacques Lacan==
<!-- ===Fantasy of the Mutilation of the Penis=== -->
<!-- [[Lacan]] -- who talks more often [[about]] "[[castration]]" than the "[[castration complex]]" -- does not discuss the [[castration complex]] very much in his early [[work]]. He dedicates a few paragraphs to it in his article on the [[family]], where he follows [[Freud]] in [[stating]] that [[castration]] is first and foremost a [[fantasy]] of the mutilation of the [[penis]]. [[Lacan]] [[links]] this [[fantasy]] with a [[whole]] series of [[fantasy|fantasies]] of [[bodily]] dismemberment which originate in the [[image]] of the [[fragmented body]]; this [[image]] is contemporary with the [[mirror stage]] (six to eighteen months), and it is only much later that these [[fantasy|fantasies]] of dismemberment coalesce around the specific [[fantasy]] of [[castration]].<ref>{{1938}} p. 44</ref> -->
== Lacan =Symbolic Lack of an Imaginary Object===It is not until the mid-1950s that the [[castration complex]] comes to play a prominent role in [[Lacan, who talks more often about ]]'s [[castrationseminars|teaching]]' than ', primarily in [[the seminar of 1956-7]]. It is in this [[seminar]] that [[Lacan]] [[identifies]] [[castration complex'|castration]] as one of [[three]] forms of "[[lack|lack of object]]", does not discuss the castration complex very much in his early work[[others]] being [[frustration]] and [[privation]]. He dedicates Unlike [[frustration]] -- which is an [[imaginary]] [[lack]] of a few paragraphs to it in his article on the family, where he follows Freud in stating that castration [[real]] [[object]] -- and [[privation]] -- which is first and foremost a [[fantasyreal]] [[lack]] of the mutilation of the penis. a [[symbolic]] [[object]], [[castration complex|castration]] is defined by [[Lacan links this fantasy with ]] as a whole series [[symbolic]] [[lack]] of fantasies of bodily dismemberment which originate in the an [[imageimaginary]] of the [[fragmented bodyobject]]; this image is contemporary with [[castration complex|castration]] does not bear on the [[mirror stagepenis]] as a [[real]] [[biology|organ]] (six to eighteen months), and it is only much later that these fantasies of dismemberment coalesce around but on the specific fantasy of castration[[imaginary]] [[phallus]].<ref>{{LS4}} 1938. p.44219</ref> It is not until the mid-1950s that the castration complex comes to play a prominent role in [[Lacan]]'s teaching, primarily in account of the [[the seminar of 1956-7castration complex]]. It is in this seminar that Lacan identifies castration as one thus raised out of three forms of 'the [[lackdimension]] of simple [[object]]', the others being [[frustrationbiology]] and or [[privationbiology|anatomy]]. :
<blockquote>"It is insoluble by any reduction to [[biological]] givens."<ref>{{E}} p. 282</ref></blockquote>
[[Lacan']] [[divides]] the [[Oedipus complex]] into three "[[Oedipus complex|times]]".<ref>{{S5}}; [[Seminar]] of 22 January 1958</ref># In the first [[time]], the [[child]] perceives that the [[mother]] [[desire]]s account something beyond the [[child]] himself - namely, the [[imaginary]] [[phallus]] -- and then tries to be the [[phallus]] for the [[mother]] (see [[preoedipal phase]]).# In the second time, the [[imaginary]] [[father]] intervenes to deprive the [[mother]] of her [[object]] by promulgating the [[incest taboo]]; properly [[speaking]], this is not [[castration complex |castration]] but [[privation]]. # [[castration complex|Castration]] is thus raised out only realized in the [[third]] and final time, which represents the "[[dissolution]]" of the dimension of simple [[biologyOedipus complex]] or anatomy: '. It is insoluble then that the [[real]] [[father]] intervenes by any reduction showing that he really possesses the [[phallus]], in such a way that the [[child]] is [[forced]] to abandon his attempts to biological givensbe the [[phallus]].'<ref>{{ES4}} p.282208-9, 227</ref>
<!-- ===Two Operations"Normalizing Effect"===From this account of The [[castration complex]] presents the Oedipus [[subject]] with a [[choice]]: to accept [[castration complex, |castration]] or to deny it. [[Lacan]] argues that it is clear only by accepting (or "assuming") [[castration complex|castration]] that Lacan uses the term '[[subject]] can reach a degree of [[psyche|psychic]] [[perversion|normality]]. In other [[words]], the assumption of [[castration complex|castration]] has a "[[normalizing effect]]". This [[normalising effect]] is to be [[understood]] in terms of both [[psychopathology]] ([[clinic]]al [[structure]]s and [[symptom]]s) and [[sexual identity]].-->===Clinical Structures===It is the [[refusal]] of [[castration' complex|castration]] that lies at the root of all [[neurosis|psychopathological]] [[structure]]s. However, since it is [[impossible]] to refer accept [[castration complex|castration]] entirely, a completely "normal" [[position]] is never achieved. The closest to two different operations:such a position is the [[neurosis|neurotic]] [[structure]], but even here the [[subject]] still [[defends]] himself against the [[lack]] in the [[Other]] by repressing [[awareness]] of [[castration complex|castration]]. This prevents the [[neurotic]] from fully assuming his [[desire]], since "it is the assumption of castration that creates the lack upon which desire is instituted."<ref>{{Ec}} p. 852</ref>
<!--
====Perversion====
A more radical [[defense]] against [[castration complex|castration]] than [[repression]] is [[disavowal]], which is at the root of the [[perversion|perverse]] [[structure]].
-->
<!--
====Psychosis====
The [[psychotic]] takes the most extreme path of all; he completely repudiates [[castration complex|castration]], as if it had never existed.<ref>{{S1}} p. 53</ref> This repudiation of [[castration complex|symbolic castration]] leads to the return of [[castration complex|castration]] in the [[real]], such as in the form of [[hallucinations]] of [[fragmented body|dismemberment]] (as in the case of the [[Wolf Man]]) or even self-mutilation of the [[real]] [[genital|genital organ]]s.
-->
<!--
===Castration and Sexual Identity===
It is only by assuming [[castration complex|castration]] (in both senses) that the [[subject]] can take up a [[sexual difference|sexual position]] as a [[man]] or a [[woman]]. The different modalities of refusing [[castration complex|castration]] find expression in the various forms of [[perversion]].
-->
==See Also==
{{See}}
* [[Absence]]
* [[Biology]]
* [[Desire]]
* [[Development]]
||
* [[Drive]]
* [[Fantasy]]
* [[Father]]
* [[Frustration]]
||
* [[Lack]]
* [[Mother]]
* [[Neurosis]]
* [[Oedipus complex]]
||
* [[Penis]]
* [[Perversion]]
* [[Phallus]]
* [[Privation]]||* [[Psychosis]]* [[Sexual difference]]* [[Structure]]* [[Treatment]]{{Also}}
==References==
<div style="font-size:11px" class="references-small">
<references/>
</div>[[Category:Psychoanalysis]]
[[Category:Jacques Lacan]]
[[Category:TermsSexuality]][[Category:DictionaryDevelopment]]
[[Category:Treatment]]
[[Category:Practice]]
[[Category:Dictionary]]
[[Category:Concepts]]
[[Category:PsychoanalysisTerms]]{{OK}}