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Freud argues that penis envy persists into adulthood, manifesting itself both in the desire to enjoy the penis in sexual intercourse, and in the desire to have a child (since the father has failed to providÈ her with a child, the [[Woman]] turns to another man instead). Lacan argues that even when the [[Woman]] has a child, this does not spell the end of her sense of privation. Her desire for the phallus remains unsatisfied, no matter how many children she has. The mother's basic dissatisfaction (S4, 194) is perceived by the child from very early on; he realizes that she has a desire that aims at something beyond her relationship with him - the [[Imaginary]] phallus. The child then seeks to fulfil her desire by identifying with the [[Imaginary]] phallus. In this way, the privation of the mother is responsible for introducing the dialectic of desire in the child's life for the first time.
==def==The concept of privation is essential for Freud. In The Future of An Illusion (1927c), he writes: "For the sake of a uniform terminology we will describe the fact that an instinct cannot be satisfied as a 'frustration,' the regulation by which this frustration is established as a 'prohibition' and the condition which is produced by the prohibition as a 'privation"' (p. 10). Later in the same essay, he defines more specifically the drive-wishes that result from privation: incest, the pleasure in and wish to murder, and cannibalism.
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