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That is, the [[law]] actually invents that which it regulates, creating a [[lack]] by masking the [[impossibility]] of the [[imaginary]] relation behind the [[symbolic]] [[prohibition]]:
<blockquote>"[T]he law creates desire in the first place by creating interdiction. Desire is essentially the desire to transgress, and for there to be transgression it is first necessary for there to be prohibition […] desire is born out of the process of regulation."<ref>Evans 99</ref></blockquote>
By the same process, the [[symbolic]] [[order]] actually invents the [[subject]] as an effect of itself, generating the [[subject]] [[position]] of the [[speaking]] [[individual]] at the same moment as that [[individual]] seeks to [[signify]] the [[absence]] of someone or something to which it has suddenly been barred access (or the [[impossibility]] of access to which he or she has suddenly been made aware).
