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==Jacques Lacan==
===Dual relationRelation===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>
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>
===Triadic StructureImaginary Phallus===
The third element in the [[preoedipal]] [[triangle]], which mediates the [[dual relation]] between the [[mother]] and the [[child]], is the [[phallus]], an [[imaginary]] object which circulates between them in a series of exchanges.
===End of the Prepoedipal Phase===
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]]," 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 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]] into a [[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>
==See Also==
{{See}}
* [[Desire]]
* [[Development]]
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* [[Drive]]
* [[Dual relation]]
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* [[Father]]
* [[Fetishism]]
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* [[Identification]]
* [[Imaginary]]
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* [[Lack]]
* [[Mother]]
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* [[Oedipus complex]]
* [[Perversion]]
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* [[Phallus]]
* [[Structure]]
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