Genital Stage Teleology
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Against Understanding, Volume 2: Cases and Commentary in a Lacanian Key · Bruce Fink · p.81
<span id="page-36-0"></span>[WHAT'S SO DIFFERENT ABOUT](#page-7-0) LACAN'S APPROACH TO PSYCHOANALYSIS? > **Harmony Between the Sexes?**
Theoretical move: Lacan's denial of the sexual relation is the theoretical fulcrum here: the fantasy of a primordial harmony between the sexes—rooted in ancient cosmology and surviving in post-Freudian genital-stage theories—distorts psychoanalytic theory and practice, and eliminating it is constitutive of the ethics of psychoanalysis. The Newtonian/Keplerian displacement of the sphere by the ellipse with an empty focus serves as Lacan's epistemological analogue for the decentering psychoanalysis demands but consistently fails to sustain.
certain post-Freudian analysts have claimed that the child relates to another person as a whole person, not as a collection of partial objects