his ego are knotted and crystallized—starts to be organized, that it is possible to intro-
duce that which makes appear to the subject, beyond what he himself represents for the
mother, the form of the love object which is caught, captured and kept in something
which he himself quaobject is not able to extinguish” (Le séminaire livre IV,p.17 6).44 .Le séminaire livre V,p.13 3.
- See especially ibid., pp. 182 , 198‒199; Le séminaire livre IV,pp.19 4, 19 6. This also explains
why Lacan thinks that perverts, who remain stuck at this stage, alternatively identify with
the mother andwith the phallus.
46 .Le séminaire livre IV,p. 71.
- In order to understand Lacan’s Oedipus complex it is therefore essential not to identify
“primordial frustration”—which marks the entryof the child into the first stage of the
Oedipus complex—with what is called “fundamental disappointment”—which marks
the endof the first stage.
48 .Le séminaire livre IV,pp.81‒82.
Ibid., p. 101.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Ibid., p. 142.
Ibid., p.14 0.
Ibid., p. 223.
Ibid., p. 214.
Ibid., p.15 5.
Ibid., p. 178.
58 .Le séminaire livre V,p. 199.
59 .Le séminaire livre IV,p. 101.
Ibid., p. 125.
Ibid., p. 126.
Ibid., p. 174 (emphasis added).
“It is at this level that one should understand the oral absorption and its so-called re-
gressive mechanism, that can take place in any [adult] love relation” (ibid., p. 175 ).
Ibid., p. 184.
Ibid., p. 175.
In Seminar IV, this is also how Lacan explains the first formation of the superego, which
is for him, in accordance with Kleinian theories, already begun in the child–mother
relation.
67 .Le séminaire livre IV,p. 188.