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LAcan reformulated [[Lacan]] reformulates the central complex of psychoanalysis, the [[Oedipus omplexcomplex]], as a ''[[symbolic ]] [[structure]].''

   Thus, for Lacan, the threat of castration does not involve an actual bodily threat but a symbolic process, as the infant assumes a psoition position in the symbolic order as a desiring subject.  Similarly, LAcan Lacan radically reformualted reformulated the role of the father.  The role of the father in psychoanalysis depends not upon the presene presence of an actual father but upon a signifier, the paternal metaphor, which subsittues substitutes the desire fo of the motehr mother with symbolic law.  It is through the intervention of the Name-of-the-Father that the dyadic relationship of the imaginary is broken and the phallus is installed as the original lost object.  The phallus is the original object-cuase cause of desire and the central organizing signifier of the unconscious.  These ideas are linked through the notion of the two fathers ot to the function of the superego, as at once the itnernalization internalization of the symbolic law and the desire to transgress this law.      the question of desire and the subject of the unconscious.