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==DefinitionDisappearance of the Subject==The literal meaning of this Greek [[Lacan]] takes up Jones's term is , 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>

It was first introduced into psychoanalysis by ==Neurosis==Far from the [[disappearance]] of [[desire]] [[being]] the [[object]] of [[Ernest Jonesfear]], who uses it is precisely what the [[neurotic]] aims at; the [[neurotic]] attempts to mean "the disappearance of sexual shield himself from his [[desire]], to put it aside."<ref>Jones, 1927{{S8}} p. 271</ref>

For Jones==Fading==[[Lacan]] also uses [[another]] term, "[[fading]], " in a way that makes it synonymous with the fear of term ''[[aphanisis exists ]]''. [[Fading]] (a term which [[Lacan]] uses directly in both sexes, giving rise [[English]]) refers to the [[castration complexdisappearance]] in of the [[male|boyssubject]] and to in the [[penis envyprocess]] in of [[female|girlsalienation]].

==Aphanisis and Jacques LacanMathemes==[[Lacan]] takes up Jones's The term, but modifies it substantially.  For Lacan, aphanisis does not mean the disappearance of [[desire]], but the disappearance of the [[subject]].<ref>see S11, 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, 221</ref> Far from the disappearance of desire being the object of [[fear]], it is precisely what the used by [[neurotic]] aims at; the neurotic attempts to shield himself from his desire, to put it aside.<ref>S8, 271</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 [[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 barred [[bar]]red in these mathemes. ==More==Aphanisis : Total extinction of the capacity for sexual enjoyment. Aphanisis : Extinction de la capacité de jouissance[[matheme]]s.