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"[[Lack]]" ([[Fr]]. ''[[{{Top}}manque]]''){{Bottom}}

The term ==Translator's Note=="''Manque''" is translated here as "lack", except in the expression, created by [[lackLacan]], "''manque-à-être''" is always related, in for which [[Lacan]]'s teaching, to himself has proposed the [[English]] neologism "[[desirewant]]-to-be".

Ii ==Lack and Desire==The term "[[lack]]" is always related, in [[Lacan]]'s teaching, to [[desire]]. It is a [[lack]] which causes [[desire]] to arise.<ref>{{S8}} p.139</ref> However, the precise [[nature]] of what is [[lack]]ing varies over the course of [[Lacan]]'s [[Works of Jacques Lacan|work]].

However==Lack of Being==When the term first appears, in 1955, the precise nature of what is [[lack]]ing varies over the course designates first and foremost a [[lack|lack of being]]. What is [[Lacandesire]]'s d is [[Works of Jacques Lacan|workbeing]]itself.

===Lack <blockquote>Desire is a relation of Being===being to lack. The lack is the lack of being properly [[speaking]]. It isn't the lack of this or that, but lack of being whereby the being [[exists]]."<ref>{{S2}} p. 223</ref></blockquote>

When the term first appears, [[Lacan]] returns to this theme in 19551958, when he argues that [[desire]] is the [[metonymy]] of the [[lack|lack of being]] (''[[lack|manque à être]]'').<ref>{{E}} p. 259; translated by [[Sheridan]] as "want-to-be"</ref> The [[subject]]'s [[lack|lack of being]] is "the heart of the [[analytic]] [[experience]] designates first " and foremost a "the very field in which the [[neurotic]]'s [[passion]] is deployed.<ref>{{E}} p. 251</ref> [[Lacan]] contrasts the [[lack|lack of being]], which relates to [[desire]] , with the [[lack|lack of having]] (''[[lack|manque à avoir]]''), which relates to [[beingdemand]].<ref>{{Ec}} p. 730</ref>

What ==Lack of an Object==In 1956, [[lack]] comes to designate the [[lack]] of an [[object]]. [[Lacan]] distinguishes between [[three]] kinds of [[lack]], according to the nature of the [[object]] which is [[lack]]ing, as shown in the [[figure]] below.<ref>{{S4}} p. 269</ref><!-- In the [[child]] as in the [[adult]], the lack of the object can appear in three specific modes: frustration, privation, and castration. In each of these three cases there is desired lack of the object, but in each [[case]] the nature of the lack is qualitatively different. The same is [[beingtrue]] itselfof the type of object in question. -->{| style="width:85%; height:200px" border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"|+ '''[[:Image:Lacan-threelacks.jpg|Table of three types of lack of object]]'''<BR>! align="center" | AGENT !! align="center" | LACK !! align="center" | OBJECT|-| align="center" | [[Real]] [[father]]| align="center" | [[Symbolic]] [[castration]] || align="center" | [[Imaginary]] [[phallus]]|-| align="center" | [[Symbolic]] [[mother]]| align="center" | [[Imaginary]] [[frustration]]| align="center" | [[Real]] [[breast]]|-| align="center" | [[Imaginary]] [[father]]| align="center" | [[Real]] [[privation]]| align="center" | [[Symbolic]] [[phallus]]|}

<blockquote>Desire is a relation of being to lack. The lack is the lack of being properly speaking. It isn't the lack of this or that, but lack of being whereby the being exists."<ref>{{S2}} p.223</ref></blockquote> [[Lacan]] returns to this theme in 1958, when he argues that [[desire]] is the [[metonymy]] of the [[lack]] of [[being]] (''manque à être''; translated by Sheridan as "want-to-be").<ref>{{E}} p.259</ref> The [[subject]]'s [[lack]] of [[being]] is "the heart of the analytic experience" and "the very field in which the neurotic's passion is deployed.<ref>{{E}} p.251</ref> [[Lacan]] contrasts the [[lack]] of [[being]], which relates to [[desire]], with the [[lack]] of having (''manque à avoir''), which relates to [[demand]].<ref>{{Ec}} p.730</ref> ===Lack of an Object=== In 1956, [[lack]] comes to designate the [[lack]] of an [[object]]. [[Lacan]] distinguishes between three kinds of [[lack]], according to the nature of the [[object]] which is [[lack]]ing, as shown in the figure below.<ref>{{S4}} p.269</ref> [[Image:Lacan-threelacks.jpg|center|Table of three types of lack of object]] Of these three forms of [[lack]], [[castration]] is the most important from the point of view of [[treatment|analytic experience]], and the term "[[lack]]" tends to become synonymous with [[castration]]. In 1957, when [[Lacan]] introduces the [[algebraic]] [[symbol]] for the [[bar]]red [[Other]] (<strike>A</strike>), [[lack]] comes to designate the [[lack]] of a [[signifier]] in the [[Other]]. [[Lacan]] introduces the [[symbol]] '''S(<strike>A</strike>)''' to designate "the signifier of a lack in the Other." No matter how many [[signifier]]s one adds to the [[signifying chain]], the [[chain]] is always incomplete; it always [[lack]]s the [[signifier]] that oculd complete it. This "missing signifier" (written -1 in [[Lacan]]ian [[algebra]]) is constitutive of the [[subject]].

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