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The alternative seems ineluctable: either the [[Mother]] or the [[Father]]. To choose the [[Mother]] means to be condemned to the dependency of [[demand]], while the [[Father]] constitutes the access to [[desire]], hence to salvation. If the [[Father]] must be preferred to the [[Mother]], if the [[Father]] is the origin and the representative of [[culture]] (and of the [[Law]]), it is because he possesses the [[phallus]] that he can give or refuse. The absolute primacy of the [[phallus]] - the single emblem of Man - has become a real doctrinal (perhaps dogmatic) basis of Lacanian theory: "The [[phallus]] is the [[signifier]] of [[signifier]]s, the privileged signifier of that mark in which the role of the logos is joined with the advent of [[desire]]," its function "touches on its most profound rapport: that in which the Ancients embodied the <i>Nous</i>, the Mind, and the <i>Logos</i>, discourse, reason." Why such a privilege? "This [[signifier]] is chosen as the most tangible element in the real of sexual copulation; it is the most symbolic in the literal sense," since "it is equivalent to the logical copula." Moreover, "by virtue of its turgidity, it epitomizes the image of the vital flow as it is transmitted in generation." [[Freud]] says, there is only one libido, masculine in nature. Later, [[Lacan]] will assert that "[[there is no such thing as sexual rapport]]," <i>[[il n'y a pas de rapport sexuel]]</i>, in the sense of proportion or relation: one sex counts for both sexes. Thus the [[phallus]] can only appear as veiled.

1957-1958

<b>Le séminaire, Livre V: Les formations de l'inconscient.</b><br>

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