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...hallus]], which he conceives as a [[signifier]] and not as a [[body|bodily organ]]. Thus while [[Freud]] conceives of the [[castration complex]] and [[sexu ...an]] follows [[Freud]]'s [[rejection]] of the [[false]] dichotomy between "anatomy or convention".<ref>{{F}} ''[[Works of Sigmund Freud|New Introductory Lectu

...ubject]] is aware of both the [[male]] and the [[female]] [[biology|sexual organ]]s.<ref>{{F}} "[[Works of Sigmund Freud|The Infantile Genital Organization] ...is thus raised out of the [[dimension]] of simple [[biology]] or [[biology|anatomy]]:

...in question but the [[presence]] or [[absence]] of the male [[genital]] [[organ]], the penis. Second, a [[number]] of Freud's followers began to look much ...ting a form of [[biological]] [[essentialism]] in the [[sense]] that one's anatomy - whether or not one has or does not have a penis - determines one's sexual

...reality]] of castration is borught home to the boy when he sees the sexual anatomy of the [[girl]], which is [[lacking]] the protruding genitals of the male. ...- he must [[present]] something in the [[real]]. Yet the [[child]]'s real organ (whether boy or girl) is hopelessly inadequate. This sense of inadequacy a

...nergy could produce actual physical blocks within [[muscle]]s and [[Organ (anatomy)|organs]], and that these act as a "body armor," preventing the release of

[[Freud]] states that 'anatomy is destiny' and explains the little [[girl]]'s '[[sense]] of [[inferiority] ...of both [[gender]]s believe in the [[existence]] ofonly one [[genital]] [[organ]].

...[boy]]'s posession of the [[penis]], which she sees as a highly valuable [[organ]].) THE IMAGINARY ANATOMY

...), and he crossed that border on the basis of the [[difference]] between [[organ]] and function.

The awareness of the presence or absence of the male genital organ ...count for both sexes, based on the presence or absence of the male genital organ.

...[development]] when the child, whether boy or girl, knows only one genital organ - the male one. ...ck of an imaginary object; castration does not bear on the penis as a real organ, but on the [[imaginary]] [[phallus]].<ref>{{S4}} p.219</ref>

...ceives of the [[phallus]] as a [[signifier]] rather than as a [[bodily]] [[organ]]. ...], [[Lacan]] follows [[Freud]]'s rejection of the false dichotomy between "anatomy or convention."<ref>Freud, 1933a: SE XXII, 114</ref>

...e reality of castration is borught home to the boy when he sees the sexual anatomy of the girl, which is lacking the protruding genitals of the male. The girl ...s]] - he must present something in the [[real]]. Yet the [[child]]'s real organ (whether boy or girl) is hopelessly inadequate. This sense of inadequacy a