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precedipal phase (stade prÈúdipien) The ==Jacques Lacan=====Dual Relation===Before [[Lacan]], the [[preoedipal phase is the period of psychosexual development ]] was usually represented as a '''[[dual relation]]''' between [[mother]] and [[child]] existing prior to any [[third]] term which could mediate it. However, [[Lacan]] argues that such an approach has the formation disadvantage of rendering the OEDIPUS COMPLEX. The term emerges very late [[concept]] unthinkable in Freud's work, in the context of his discussion of female sexuality (Freud, 1931b)[[psychoanalytic theory]].

Before Lacan, the preoedipal phase was usually represented as a DUAL RELATION between mother and child existing prior to any third term which could mediate it. However, Lacan argues that such an approach has the disadvantage of rendering the concept unthinkable in psychoanalytic theory. ===Triadic Structure===[[Psychoanalysis ]] deals exclusively with [[structure]], which requires a minimum of [[three ]] [[terms]], and thus a [[preoedipal phase ]] which is represented as a purely [[dual relation ']] "cannot be conceived of in [[analytic ]] terms' (."<ref>{{E, }} p. 197). </ref> The [[child ]] is never completely alone with the [[mother]], since there is always a [[third ]] term (.<ref>{{S4, }} p. 240- 1)</ref> Hence when [[Lacan]] speaks of a [[preoedipal phase]], he presents it not as a [[dual relation]] but as a [[triangle]].<ref>{{S4}} p.81</ref>

Hence when Lacan speaks of a preoedipal phase, he presents it not as a dual relation but as a triangle (S4, 81). ===Imaginary Phallus===The third element in the [[preoedipal ]] [[triangle]], which mediates the [[dual relation ]] between the [[mother ]] and the [[child]], is the [[Phallusphallus]], an [[Imaginaryimaginary]] [[object ]] which circulates between [[them ]] in a series of exchanges. In the [[seminar ]] of 1957-8 [[Lacan ]] speaks of this [[Imaginary]] [[triangle ]] not as a [[preoedipal phase ]] but as the first '[[time]]' of the [[Oedipus complex]]. Whether described as [[preoedipal]], or as a [[moment ]] in the [[Oedipus complex ]] itself, the [[Imaginaryimaginary]] [[triangle ]] of [[mother]], [[child ]] and [[phallus ]] arises when the [[infant ]] perceives a [[lack ]] in the [[mother]]. The infant [[Realinfant]]ises realises that the [[mother ]] is not completely [[satisfied ]] with him alone, but desires [[desire]]s something else (the [[phallus]]). The [[child]] then seeks to be the [[phallus]] for the [[mother]], which involves him in a [[seductive]] [[game]] of [[lures]] in which the [[child]] "is never really there at the [[place]] where he is, and is never completely [[absent]] from the [[place]] where he is not."<ref>{{S4}} p.193; {{S4}} p. 223-4</ref>

The child then seeks to be ===End of the phallus for Prepoedipal Phase===In the mother, which involves him in a seductive game of lures in which the child 'is never [[Realseminar]]ly there at the place where he is, and is never completely absent from the place where he is not' (S4, 193; see also S4, 223-4). In the seminar of 1956-7, where [[Lacan analyses ]] analyzes the [[case ]] of [[Little Hans (]],<ref>{{F}} "[[Works of Sigmund Freud|Analysis of a Phobia in a Five-Year-Old Boy]], 1909b)" 1909. [[SE]] X, 3.</ref> he shows how, for a while, this game is [[satisfying ]] for [[Hans]], and argues that there is [[nothing ]] inherent in it that would put an end to this [[preoedipal paradise (phase]].<ref>{{S4, }} p. 226). </ref> However, at some point something else intervenes which introduces a discordant note of [[anxiety ]] into the [[game]]. This "something else" is the first stirring of the [[drive]], which manifests itself in ''[[infantile]] [[masturbation]]''.<ref>{{S4}} p. 225-6</ref> The [[intervention]] of the [[real]] [[organ]] in this way transforms the [[imaginary]] [[triangle]] intoa [[death|deadly]] [[game]], an [[impossible]] task, in which the [[child]] is completely prey to the [[arbitrary]] [[desire]] of the omnipotent devouring [[mother]].<ref>{{S4}} p. 69, 195</ref> The [[child]] is only saved from this [[death|deadly]] [[game]] by the intervention of the [[father]] as a fourth term, the [[father]] who rightfully claims possession of the [[phallus]] on the basis of a [[symbolic]] [[law]].

the game. This 'something else' is the first stirring of the drive, which manifests itself in infantile masturbation (S4, 225-6). ===Perversion===The intervention interest of the [[Realpreoedipal phase]] organ for [[Lacan]] does not only lie in this its function in paving the way transforms for the [[ImaginaryOedipus complex]] triangle into a deadly game, an impossible task, but also in which the child is completely prey to fact that all the arbitrary desire of the omnipotent devouring mother ([[perversion]]s have their origin in this [[phase]].<ref>{{S4, 69, 195)}} p. The child is only saved from this deadly game by the intervention 193</ref> [[Perversion]] always involves some kind of [[identification]] with [[another]] term in the father as a fourth term[[preoedipal]] [[triangle]], whether it be the father who rightfully claims possession of [[mother]], or the [[imaginary]] [[phallus on the basis of a ]] (or both, as in [[Symbolicfetishism]] law).

The interest of the preoedipal phase for Lacan does not only lie in its function in paving the way for the ==See Also=={{See}}* [[Desire]]* [[Development]]||* [[Drive]]* [[Dual relation]]||* [[Father]]* [[Fetishism]]||* [[Identification]]* [[Imaginary]]||* [[Lack]]* [[Mother]]||* [[Oedipus complex, but also in the fact that all the perversions have their origin in this phase (S4, 193). PERVERSION always involves some kind of identification with another term in the preoedipal triangle, whether it be the mother, or the ]]* [[ImaginaryPerversion]]||* [[Phallus]]* [[Structure]] phallus (or both, as in fetishism).{{Also}}

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