Lacan, the Phallus, and the Oedipus

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In this lecture, Dr. Leon Brenner talks about how Lacan re-works the Freudian account of the Oedipus complex on several occasions. In, Seminar IV: The Object Relations (1956-1957), Lacan associates it with his understanding of the phallus - annexing it as a fourth term in the Oedipal triangle of the child-mother-father. Defining the phallus as a signifier of lack, he accounts for its role in the course of the Oedipus complex in three different forms - the real, imaginary and symbolic phallus. But what exactly is the function of the phallus as a signifier in the Oedipus complex? What is its role in the most primordial stages of the child's integration in language as a desiring subject?

Leon Brenner, PhD, is a teacher and a scholar specializing in the fields of Lacanian psychoanalysis, contemporary French philosophy and autism theory. Brenner has graduated with the highest honour a B.A and M.A in Psychology and Philosophy. Brenner has received two excellence awards as a junior university teacher. He is currently engaged in several scholarly and artistic projects in Berlin and is a resident instructor at Stillpoint Spaces Berlin.

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