Anal Object
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Transgender Psychoanalysis: A Lacanian Perspective on Sexual Difference · Patricia Gherovici · p.140
**FREUD'S SCATALOG**
Theoretical move: The anal object—feces as the first lost part of the body—grounds a universal, ungendered model of subjective loss and castration; by tracing its trajectory from bodily part through gift to agalma and finally to objet petit a, the passage argues that scatology underpins the constitution of desire, the demand of the Other, and ultimately Lacan's thesis of the sexual non-relation, displacing the phallus as the privileged site of castration.
Žižek observes that the anal object functions as a signifying element, highlighting the role that excrement plays in the economy between subjects as a proof to the Other of self-control and discipline