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[[Image:Lacan-threelacks.jpg|center|Table of three types of lack of object]]
{| border="1"
|+ The table's caption
! AGENT !! LACK !! OBJECT
|-
! [[Real]] [[father]]
| [[Symbolic]] [[castration]] || [[Imaginary]] [[phallus]]
|-
! [[Symbolic]] [[mother]]
|[[Imaginary]] [[frustration]]
|[[Real]] [[breast]]
|-
! [[Imaginary]] [[father]]
|[[Real]] [[privation]]
|[[Symbolic]] [[phallus]]
|}
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]].
This "missing signifier" (written -1 in [[Lacan]]ian [[algebra]]) is constitutive of the [[subject]].
==See Also==
