The phallus between sexes

Abstract

In this text, we will develop the role of the phallus between the sexes from the beginning of Jacques Lacan’s teaching until 1964. For this reason, we will begin by questioning the role of the phallus signifier precisely when Lacan (1958) explains that the phallus has the role of giving reality to the subject through the signifier and unrealizes the relationships which will be signified. In turn, the signifier divides and organizes the sexual roles. We will discuss the designation of the sexual roles through the phallus signifier with the formula “being without having”. Lacan (1958/1959) introduces this formula by means of denial where he locates castration intervention. Due to the mark the phallus gets through castration, this signifier has an equivalent role in relation to the object. The previous will be developed by means of the veil value in love and its comedy effects. Comic pleasure will also be approached within Freud teaching (1905