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    Note On The Child

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    The document is a note by Jacques Lacan on the child. It discusses how a child's symptoms can represent truths about the family structure. Specifically, it argues that a symptom may represent the truth of issues within the parental couple's relationship. It also examines how a child can become the object of the mother's fantasy or desire if the father's role as a mediator is lacking. The child can end up alienating himself to give the mother access to her own truth through embodiment. The somatic symptom thus guarantees the mother's misrecognition and can testify to guilt or serve as a fetish, depending on the specifics of the case.

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    The document is a note by Jacques Lacan on the child. It discusses how a child's symptoms can represent truths about the family structure. Specifically, it argues that a symptom may represent the truth of issues within the parental couple's relationship. It also examines how a child can become the object of the mother's fantasy or desire if the father's role as a mediator is lacking. The child can end up alienating himself to give the mother access to her own truth through embodiment. The somatic symptom thus guarantees the mother's misrecognition and can testify to guilt or serve as a fetish, depending on the specifics of the case.

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    The document is a note by Jacques Lacan on the child. It discusses how a child's symptoms can represent truths about the family structure. Specifically, it argues that a symptom may represent the truth of issues within the parental couple's relationship. It also examines how a child can become the object of the mother's fantasy or desire if the father's role as a mediator is lacking. The child can end up alienating himself to give the mother access to her own truth through embodiment. The somatic symptom thus guarantees the mother's misrecognition and can testify to guilt or serve as a fetish, depending on the specifics of the case.

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    The document is a note by Jacques Lacan on the child. It discusses how a child's symptoms can represent truths about the family structure. Specifically, it argues that a symptom may represent the truth of issues within the parental couple's relationship. It also examines how a child can become the object of the mother's fantasy or desire if the father's role as a mediator is lacking. The child can end up alienating himself to give the mother access to her own truth through embodiment. The somatic symptom thus guarantees the mother's misrecognition and can testify to guilt or serve as a fetish, depending on the specifics of the case.

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    Note on the Child

    Jacques Lacan

    It seems that if we look at the failure of utopian communities, Lacan’s


    position evokes the following dimension.

    The function of residue that the conjugal family supports (and thereby
    maintains) in the evolution of societies highlights the irreducibility of a
    form of transmission – one that is of a different order than that of life
    considered as the satisfaction of needs – but one that has a subjective
    constitution, implying a relationship to a desire that is not anonymous.

    The functions of the mother and the father are to be judged on the basis of
    such a requirement. For the mother: insofar as her care bears the mark of
    an individualized interest, even if via her own lacks. For the father:
    insofar as his name is the vector of the embodiment of the Law in desire.

    In the conception of it developed by Jacques Lacan, the child’s symptom


    is located in the position of a response to what is symptomatic in the
    family structure.

    In this context, a symptom, which is the fundamental fact of analytic


    experience, can be defined as representing the truth.

    A symptom may represent the truth of the family couple. This is the most
    complex case, but it is also the one that is most open to our intervention.

    The articulation is much more limited when the symptom that comes to
    dominate arises from the subjectivity of the mother. In this case the child
    is directly concerned as the correlate of a fantasy.

    If the gap between the identification with the ego ideal and the piece
    taken from the mother’s desire lacks the mediation that is normally
    provided by the father’s function, it leaves the child susceptible to every
    kind of fantasmatic capture. He becomes the motherʼs “object” and his
    sole function is to reveal the truth of this object.

    The child realizes the presence of what Jacques Lacan designates as objet
    a in fantasy.

    By substituting himself for this object, the child saturates the mode of
    lack whereby (the motherʼs) desire is particularized, whatever her
    specific structure - neurotic, perverse or psychotic.
    He alienates in himself all possible access by the mother to her own truth
    through giving it body, existence and even the requirement to be
    protected.

    The somatic symptom gives the greatest possible guarantee to this


    misrecognition [méconnaissance]; it is the inexhaustible resource that,
    depending on the case, may testify to guilt, serve as a fetish, or incarnate
    a primordial refusal.

    In short, in the dyadic relationship with the mother the child gives her, in
    immediately accessible form, what the masculine subject lacks: the very
    object of his existence appearing in the real. As a consequence, the child
    is open to greater subornation in fantasy in a manner commensurate with
    what is real in what he presents.

    Translated by Russell Grigg

    Published in The Lacanian Review, no. 4 (2018), 13-14.

    Originally published as ‘Deux notes sur l’enfant’, Ornicar? no. 37


    (1986), 13-14.

    Also published as ‘Note sur l’enfant’, Autres écrits, 373-75.

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