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The [[mother]] provides the necessary care, feeding and satisfaction of [[need]]s, while there is within her the [[desire]] for something other than [[satisfaction|satisfying]] the [[infant]]'s [[desire]]. The [[mother]] [[lack]]s the [[phallus]] and [[desire]]s in the [[infant]] something other than himself - the [[phallus]] she [[lack]]s (the basis of the relationship with her [[father]], and of her own [[Oedipus complex]]). The [[mother]] [[desire]]s something apart from attending to the [[child]]'s [[need]]s and cares, for behind her there is the [[Symbolic]] [[Order]] on which she depends, and also the [[phallus]], which plays the prominent role in the [[Symbolic]] [[Order]]. The [[infant]] is then caught in an imaginary relationship with the mother, familiar from the mirror stage, only this time centered on the [[presence]] and [[absence]] of the [[phallus]].
The [[infant]] takes up a particular attitude with respect to the mother and the phallus. In the first time of the [[Oedipus complex]], the [[child]] tries to [[identification|identify]] with the [[mother]]'s [[object]] of [[desire]], the [[phallus]]. (his desire is the desire of the Other)
To please her, to keep her love (or so he thinks) he must at one level be the phallus. He informs the mother that he can make up to her what she lacks, and he will be, as it were, the 'metonymy' of the phallus, replacing the desired phallus by himself.
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 [[lack]]ing element 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]].
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.
the child identifies himself with the one and only object of the other's desire.
This object that is capable of filling in the child to take himself to be lack in the object that other is the mother supposedly lacksphallus.
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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<!-- At this point, the [[mother]] is omnipotent and her [[desire]] is the [[law]]. Although this omnipotence may be seen as threatening from the very beginning, the sense of threat is intensified when the [[child]]'s own sexual [[drive]]s begin to manifest themselves (for example in infantile masturbation). This emergence of the [[real]] of the [[drive]] introduces a discordant note of [[anxiety]] into the previously seductive [[imaginary]] [[triangle]].<ref>{{S4}} p. 225-6</ref> The [[child]] is now confronted with the realization that he cannot simply fool the [[mother]]'s [[desire]] with the [[imaginary]] [[semblance]] of a [[phallus]] - he must present something in the [[real]]. Yet the [[child]]'s real organ (whether boy or girl) is hopelessly inadequate. This sense of inadequacy and impotence in the face of an omnipotent [[mother|maternal]] [[desire]] that cannot be placated gives rise to [[anxiety]]. Only the intervention of the [[father]] in the subsequent times of the [[Oedipus complex]] can provide a real solution to this [[anxiety]]. -->
