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The term ==Translator's Note=="''Manque''" is translated here as "lack", except in the expression, created by [[lackLacan]], "''manque-à-être''" is always related, in for which [[Lacan]]'s teaching, to himself has proposed the [[English]] neologism "[[desirewant]]-to-be".

Ii ==Lack and Desire==The term "[[lack]]" is always related, in [[Lacan]]'s teaching, to [[desire]]. It is a [[lack]] which causes [[desire]] to arise.<ref>{{S8}} p.139</ref> However, the precise [[nature]] of what is [[lack]]ing varies over the course of [[Lacan]]'s [[Works of Jacques Lacan|work]].

However==Lack of Being==When the term first appears, in 1955, the precise nature of what is [[lack]]ing varies over the course designates first and foremost a [[lack|lack of being]]. What is [[Lacandesire]]'s d is [[Works of Jacques Lacan|workbeing]]itself.

===Lack <blockquote>Desire is a relation of Being===being to lack. The lack is the lack of being properly [[speaking]]. It isn't the lack of this or that, but lack of being whereby the being [[exists]]."<ref>{{S2}} p. 223</ref></blockquote>

When the term first appears, [[Lacan]] returns to this theme in 19551958, when he argues that [[desire]] is the [[metonymy]] of the [[lack|lack of being]] (''[[lack|manque à être]]'').<ref>{{E}} p. 259; translated by [[Sheridan]] as "want-to-be"</ref> The [[subject]]'s [[lack|lack of being]] is "the heart of the [[analytic]] [[experience]] designates first " and foremost a "the very field in which the [[neurotic]]'s [[passion]] is deployed.<ref>{{E}} p. 251</ref> [[Lacan]] contrasts the [[lack|lack of being]], which relates to [[desire]] , with the [[lack|lack of having]] (''[[lack|manque à avoir]]''), which relates to [[beingdemand]].<ref>{{Ec}} p. 730</ref>

What is desired is [[being]] itself.==Lack of an Object== <blockquote>Desire is a relation of being to lack. The lack is the lack of being properly speaking. It isn't the lack of this or thatIn 1956, but lack of being whereby the being exists."<ref>{{S2}} p.223</ref></blockquote> [[Lacanlack]] returns comes to this theme in 1958, when he argues that [[desire]] is the [[metonymy]] of designate the [[lack]] of an [[beingobject]] (''manque à être''; translated by Sheridan as "want-to-be").<ref>{{E}} p.259</ref> The [[subjectLacan]]'s distinguishes between [[lackthree]] kinds of [[beinglack]] is ", according to the heart nature of the analytic experience" and "the very field in which the neurotic's passion is deployed.<ref>{{E}} p.251</ref> [[Lacanobject]] contrasts the which is [[lack]] of [[being]]ing, which relates to [[desire]], with as shown in the [[lack]] of having (''manque à avoir''), which relates to [[demandfigure]]below.<ref>{{EcS4}} p.730269</ref> ===Lack of an Object=== <!-- In 1956, the [[lackchild]] comes to designate as in the [[lackadult]] , the lack of an [[the object]]can appear in three specific modes: frustration, privation, and castration. [[Lacan]] distinguishes between In each of these three kinds cases there is lack of the object, but in each [[lackcase]], according to the nature of the [[object]] which lack is qualitatively different. The same is [[lacktrue]]ing, as shown of the type of object in the figure belowquestion.<ref>{{S4}} p.269</ref--> {| style="width:7585%; height:200px" border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"|+ '''[[:Image:Lacan-threelacks.jpg|Table of three types of lack of object]]'''<BR>

Of these three forms of [[lack]], [[castration]] is the most important from the point of view of analytic experience, and the term "[[lack]]" tends to become synonymous with [[castration]]. In 1957, when [[Lacan]] introduces the [[algebraic]] [[symbol]] for the [[bar]]red [[Other]] (<strike>A</strike>), [[lack]] comes to designate the [[lack]] of a [[signifier]] in the [[Other]].  [[Lacan]] introduces the [[symbol]] '''S(<strike>A</strike>)''' to designate "the signifier of a lack in the Other."  No matter how many [[signifier]]s one adds to the [[signifying chain]], the [[chain]] is always [[lack|incomplete]]; it always [[lack]]s the [[signifier]] that oculd could complete it.  This "[[lack|missing signifier]]" (written '''-1 ''' in [[Lacan]]ian [[algebra]]) is constitutive of the [[subject]]. [[Image:Lacan-threelacks.jpg|thumb|right|Table of three types of lack of object]]

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