Lacan And Seminar XX

It has been argued that since Lacan's concept of the symbolic order is phallocentric and structured according to the law of the father, that it represses the 'truly feminine,’ and defines femininity in patriarchal terms as a consequence of lack.[1] Whilst for the male child the entrance into the symbolic Order is characterised bv his identity with the father or the Phallus, for the female child the experience is a negative one and characterised by her identification with lack.…