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==DefinitionDisappearance of Desire==
The literal meaning of this Greek term is '''disappearance'''.
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]].
Total extinction ==Disappearance of the capacity for sexual enjoyment. Extinction de la capacité de jouissance. ==Aphanisis and Jacques LacanSubject==
[[Lacan]] takes up Jones's term, but modifies it substantially.
For [[Lacan]], ''[[aphanisis]] '' does not mean the [[disappearance]] of [[desire]], but the [[disappearance]] of the [[subject]].<ref>{{S11}} p. 208</ref>
The ''[[aphanisis]] '' of the [[subject]] is the [[fading]] of the [[subject]], the fundamental [[division]] -- or [[split]] -- of the [[subject ]] which institutes the [[dialectic]] of [[desire]].<ref>{{S11}} p.221</ref>
==Neurosis==Far from the [[disappearance]] of [[desire]] being the [[object]] of [[fear]], it is precisely what the [[neurotic]] aims at; the [[neurotic]] attempts to shield himself from his [[desire]], to put it aside.<ref>{{S8}} p.271</ref>
==Fading==
[[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]].
==Mathemes==The 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. ==See Also=={{See}}* [[Alienation]]* [[Bar]]||* [[Castration complex|Castration]]* [[Demand]]||* [[Desire]]* [[Dialectic]]||* [[Matheme]]* [[Neurosis]]||* [[Split]]* [[Subject]]{{Also}}
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