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In the previous session, Lacan introduced ‘the real presence of the Other’s desire’ in the canvas of Psyche surprises Cupid. The following two sessions, however, question the image of so-called ‘real presence’. Since ‘the real presence’ of the Other’s desire results from a particular relation to the phallus, Lacan begins session XVII with a fundamental ambiguity between lowercase phi and Uppercase Phi, the imaginary phallus and symbolic phallus, objects which are inevitably linked and confused within the psychical economy.
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Shafer, J.R. (2020). The Art of Questioning “Real Presence”. In: Basu Thakur, G., Dickstein, J. (eds) Reading Lacan’s Seminar VIII. The Palgrave Lacan Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32742-2_16
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