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The [[child]] seeks to [[identification|identify]] with what he or she supposes to be the [[object]] of her [[desire]].
the child to take himself to be the object that the mother supposedly lacks.
This object that is capable of filling in the lack in the other 6 is the phallus. In his relation to the mother the child therefore encounters the problematics of the phallus in the form of his desire to become the maternal phallus.
n this sense we can speak of a kind of fusional undifferentiation between mother and child from the time when the child identifies himself with the one and only object of the other's desire.
What the child wants is to become the desire of desire, to be able to satisfy the mother's desire, that is, "to be or not to be" the object of the mother's desire.... To please the mother ...it is necessary and sufficient to be the phallus. 7 [ Lacan 1957-1958, seminar of January 22, 1958 ]
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In the first time of the [[Oedipus complex]], then, the [[child]] realizes that both he and the [[mother]] are marked by a [[lack]]. The [[mother]] is marked by [[lack]], since she is seen to be [[lack|incomplete]]; otherwise, she would not [[desire]]. The [[subject]] is also marked by a [[lack]], since he does not completely [[satisfy]] the [[mother]]'s [[desire]]. The [[lack]]ing element in both cases is the [[imaginary]] [[phallus]]. The [[mother]] [[desire]]s the [[phallus]] she [[lack]]s, and (in conformity with [[Hegel]]'s theory of [[desire]]) the [[subject]] seeks to become the [[object]] of her [[desire]]; he seeks to be the [[phallus]] for the [[mother]] and fill out her [[lack]].
