Changes
The LinkTitles extension automatically added links to existing pages (<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://github.com/bovender/LinkTitles">https://github.com/bovender/LinkTitles</a>).
==Sigmund Freud==The child then seeks to be the phallus for the mother, which involves him term emerges very late in a seductive game of lures in which the child [[Freud]]'is never s [[Realwork]]ly there at the place where he is, and is never completely absent from the place where he is not' (S4, 193; see also S4, 223-4). In the seminar of 1956-7, where Lacan analyses the case of Little Hans (Freud, 1909b), 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 paradise (S4, 226). However, at some point something else intervenes which introduces a discordant note of anxiety into the game. This 'something else' is the first stirring context of the drive, which manifests itself in infantile masturbation (S4, 225-6). The intervention his [[discussion]] of the [[Realfemale sexuality]] organ in this way transforms the .<ref>{{F}} "[[ImaginaryWorks of Sigmund Freud|Female Sexuality]] triangle into a deadly game, an impossible task, in which the child is completely prey to the arbitrary desire of the omnipotent devouring mother (S4, 69, 195)" 1931b. The child is only saved from this deadly game by the intervention of the father as a fourth term, the father who rightfully claims possession of the phallus on the basis of a [[SymbolicSE]] lawXXI, 223.</ref>
===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> The [[child]] is never completely alone with the [[mother]], since there is always a [[third]] term.<ref>{{S4}} p. 240-1</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>
===Imaginary 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. In the [[seminar]] of 1957-8 [[Lacan]] speaks of this [[Imaginary]] [[triangle]] not as a [[preoedipal phase]] but as the first '[[time]]' of the [[Oedipus complex]]. Whether described as [[preoedipal]], or as a [[moment]] in the [[Oedipus complex]] itself, the [[imaginary]] [[triangle]] of [[mother]], [[child]] and [[phallus]] arises when the [[infant]] perceives a [[lack]] in the [[mother]]. The [[infant]] realises that the [[mother]] is not completely [[satisfied]] with him alone, but [[desire]]s something else (the [[phallus]]). The [[child]] then seeks to be the [[phallus]] for the [[mother]], which involves him in a [[seductive]] [[game]] of [[lures]] in which the [[child]] "is never really there at the [[place]] where he is, and is never completely [[absent]] from the [[place]] where he is not."<ref>{{S4}} p.193; {{S4}} p. 223-4</ref>
===End of the Prepoedipal Phase===
In the [[seminar]] of 1956-7, where [[Lacan]] 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> The [[child]] is only saved from this [[death|deadly]] [[game]] by the intervention of the [[father]] as a fourth term, the [[father]] who rightfully claims possession of the [[phallus]] on the basis of a [[symbolic]] [[law]].
===Perversion===
The interest of the [[preoedipal phase]] for [[Lacan]] does not only lie in its function in paving the way for the [[Oedipus complex]], but also in the fact that all the [[perversion]]s have their origin in this [[phase]].<ref>{{S4}} p. 193</ref> [[Perversion]] always involves some kind of [[identification]] with [[another]] term in the [[preoedipal]] [[triangle]], whether it be the [[mother]], or the [[imaginary]] [[phallus]] (or both, as in [[fetishism]]).
==See Also==
{{See}}
* [[Desire]]
* [[Development]]
||
* [[Drive]]
* [[Dual relation]]
||
* [[Father]]
* [[Fetishism]]
||
* [[Identification]]
* [[Imaginary]]
||
* [[Lack]]
* [[Mother]]
||
* [[Oedipus complex]]
* [[Perversion]]
||
* [[Phallus]]
* [[Structure]]
{{Also}}
==References==
<div style="font-size:11px" class="references-small">
<references/>
</div>
[[Category:Imaginary]]
[[Category:Development]][[Category:New]][[Category:Dictionary]][[Category:Freudian psychology]][[Category:Jacques Lacan]]
[[Category:Terms]]
[[Category:Concepts]]