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"[[part-object]]" ([[Fr]]. ''[[objet partiel]]'')
In addition to the [[partial object]]s already discovered by [[psychoanalytic theory]] before [[Lacan]] (the [[breast]], the [[part-object|faeces]], the [[phallus]] as [[imaginary]] [[object]], and the [[part-object|urinary flow]]), [[Lacan]] adds (in 1960) several more: the [[phoneme]], the [[gaze]], the voice and the nothing]].<ref>{{E}} p.315</ref>
These [[partial object]]s all have one feature in common: "they have no specular image."<ref>{{E}} p.315</ref>
[[Lacan]]'s conceptualisation of the [[part-object]] is modified with the development around 1963-4 of the concept of ''[[objet petit a]]'' as the [[cause]] of [[desire]].
Now each [[partial object]] becomes an [[object]] by virtue of the fact that the [[subject]] takes it for the [[object]] of [[desire]], ''[[objet petit a]]''.<ref>{{SllS11}} p.104</ref>
From this point on in his work, [[Lacan]] usually restricts his discussion of [[part-object]]s to only four:
