to the “maternal imago” (ibid., p. 147 ), and thus “is Jungian” (ibid., p.14 8), from the
later Lacan of Seminar V.
Le séminaire livre V,p.19 4; see also ibid., p.19 2.
Ibid., p. 188. This ambiguity may lead to the mistaken inference that there is an “in-
cestuous” law of the mother which is entirely independent of the Father and, as such,
extrasymbolic.
Ibid., p. 188.
Ibid., p. 189.
Ibid., p. 201.
Ibid.
Both of these dimensions should be considered as Lacan’s rigorous rethinking of the
Freudian notion of penis envy.
Le séminaire livre V,p.19 4(emphasis added).
The Seminar. Book III,p. 319.
10 0. See Le séminaire livre V,p. 195.
Ibid., p. 185.
See ibid., p. 193.
D. Evans, An Introductory Dictionary of Lacanian Psychoanalysis(London: Routledge, 199 6),
p. 129.
10 4.Le séminaire livre V,p. 186.
- Ibid., p. 193.
106 .The Seminar. Book III,p. 212 (emphasis added).
Ibid., p. 209 (emphasis added).
See Le séminaire livre IV,p. 204.
Ibid., p. 212.
Ibid., pp.209‒210.
Ibid., p. 210.
Ibid., p. 205.
113 .Le séminaire livre V,p. 187.
“The real father is nothing but an effect of language” (J. Lacan, Le séminaire livre XVII. L’en-
vers de la psychanalyse, 1969–1970[Paris: Seuil, 1991 ], p. 147 ). Hence, the paternal sym-
bolic function could also be embodied by a woman.
Ibid., p.14 8.
116 .Le séminaire livre IV,p. 206.