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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 is desired is [[being]] itself. <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> <!-- In the [[child]] as in the [[Imageadult]], the lack of the object can appear in three specific modes:Lacan-threelacksfrustration, privation, and castration.jpg|center|Table In each of these three types of cases there is lack of the object, but in each [[case]] the nature of the lack is qualitatively different. The same is [[true]] of the type of object in question. -->{| style="width:7585%; height:200px" border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"|+ '''[[:Image:Lacan-threelacks.jpg|Table of three types of lack of object]]'''<BR>

Of these three forms of [[lack]], [[castration]] is the most important from the point of view of 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 [[lack|incomplete]]; it always [[lack]]s the [[signifier]] that oculd could complete it.  This "[[lack|missing signifier]]" (written '''-1 ''' in [[Lacan]]ian [[algebra]]) is constitutive of the [[subject]].

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