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The Object Relation: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book IV (Seminar of Jacques Lacan, 4)

By Jacques Lacan

Book information

Publisher
Polity
Year
2020
ISBN
0745660355, 9780745660356
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
14 MB (14552523 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
336\471
Time added
2024-01-16 12:45:05

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"[...] it's no accident that what has been perceived but dimly, yet perceived nevertheless, is that castration bears just as much relation to the mother as to the father. We can see in the description of the primordial situation how maternal castration implies for the child the possibility of devoration and biting. In relation to this anteriority of maternal castration, paternal castration is a substitute [...]" Extract from Chapter XXI

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