Madonna - Whore Dialectic
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Against Understanding, Volume 2: Cases and Commentary in a Lacanian Key · Bruce Fink · p.156
<span id="page-36-0"></span>[WHAT'S SO DIFFERENT ABOUT](#page-7-0) LACAN'S APPROACH TO PSYCHOANALYSIS? > **Love Triangles**
Theoretical move: Fink reads Freud's 1910 paper on male object-choice to argue that what drives this "obsessive love" is not the particular woman but the structural/symbolic triangle (Oedipal rivalry), and then raises unresolved questions about the libido economy — whether the Madonna/whore fall triggers a redistribution between object-libido and ego-libido — that push beyond Freud's own formulation.
This is where Freud introduces his famous Madonna/whore dialectic. The mother, who was formerly seen as a pure Madonna-like figure, falls from grace when the child learns the facts of life