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There is much that could be said about these formulations about being versus having the phallus, but let us focus first on the general theme of loss. “Human beings,” Lacan suggests, “cannot help but consider themselves to be … missing something” (S6, p. 218). To be missing what? We have now enumerated quite a few things we feel we are missing, quite a series of losses: mom, breast, urine, feces, experience forced into words, and his/her Majesty the baby. Which we might recast as our primary caretaker, weaning, toilet training, alienation in language, and being the most precious object.

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The Phallus as Loss

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    2025年

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  • Bruce Fink

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There is much that could be said about these formulations about being versus having the phallus, but let us focus first on the general theme of loss. “Human beings,” Lacan suggests, “cannot help but consider themselves to be … missing something” (S6, p. 218). To be missing what? We have now enumerated quite a few things we feel we are missing, quite a series of losses: mom, breast, urine, feces, experience forced into words, and his/her Majesty the baby. Which we might recast as our primary caretaker, weaning, toilet training, alienation in language, and being the most precious object.