cause the latter is “provocative”: such a provocation is nothing but phallic capta-
tion/captivation (see The Seminar. Book III,p.17 6).14 5. For a critical reading of such a “beyond,” see Section 5 of Chapter 5 below.
- See especially S. Freud, “Female Sexuality,” in SE, XXI, pp.223‒243.
147 .The Seminar. Book III,p.17 6.
14 8.Le séminaire livre V,p. 195.
- See S. Freud, “Some Psychical Consequences of the Anatomical Distinction between the
Sexes,” in SE, XIX, p. 256.
15 0.Le séminaire livre IV,p. 213 (emphases added).
- See, for example Le séminaire livre V,p. 195.
15 2. See, for example Le séminaire livre IV,p. 213.
- Ibid., p. 204.
15 4. Ibid., p. 213.
15 5. Ibid., pp.213‒214.
15 6. The reader should be reminded that, for Lacan, all relations to concrete objects in real-
ity are filtered through the Imaginary.
15 7.Le séminaire livre V,p. 199.
15 8. See Le séminaire livre IV,pp.30‒31.
15 9. See Le séminaire livre V,p. 206.
16 0. Ibid., p. 174.
Ibid., p. 33 (emphasis added).
Ibid.
Ibid., p. 175.
16 4. Ibid.
- Ibid.
16 6. Ibid. (emphasis added). This can fullyoccur only at the end of the third stage of the
Oedipus complex. It is true that the child “can grasp quite early on what the imaginary
xis and thus... make himself the phallus” (in the second stage of the Oedipus com-
plex) (ibid.): at this stage, however, the phallus is not yet “completely accessible” given
that it has not yet been associated with the Law/Name-of-the-Father; this is brought
about by the real father only in the third stage of the complex.
- For schema 3. 3 , see ibid., p.17 6; for schema 3. 4 , the most well-known version of the
paternal metaphor, see Écrits: A Selection,p. 200.
16 8.Le séminaire livre V,p. 17.
- Safouan, Lacaniana,p.10 4.