A course in psychoanalysis about the phallus: Primacy, quarrel, significant and object a

Abstract

The considerations about the phallus in psychoanalytic history are not unanimous and liners. For Freud, the phallus is a fundamental element of sexual organization, however, the same value wasn't assigned by the post-Freudian, initiating to what Lacan called the "quarrel of the phallus". Lacan, despite having set the phallus as signifier, promoted changes and nuances in the way of approaching it - articulated to a object, followed by the identification to semblant and culminating in logic the phallus all and not-whole. These formulations reveal relationship with the theorizing on the real, therefore, not revoke the earlier contributions, but resize the theoretical apparatus and clinical of Lacan.