The Drives And The Stakes Involved

Precocious impasses in the drive's link to the mother are common occurrences in child care. Rather than acting as the privileged vector to an outside world, ensuring the subject's inscription in the field of the grand Autre, the big Other, the drive fixates and encloses itself in a vicious and unproductive circle. An object - whether it be the breast, faeces, the voice, or look - takes on a value of exclusivity, either because it becomes the choice object, or because it is the impossible object.…