Preoedipal Stage
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Against Understanding, Volume 2: Cases and Commentary in a Lacanian Key · Bruce Fink · p.226
<span id="page-36-0"></span>[WHAT'S SO DIFFERENT ABOUT](#page-7-0) LACAN'S APPROACH TO PSYCHOANALYSIS? > **Beyond the Oedipal Triangle**
Theoretical move: By reading the "Freud Man" case through Lacan's formula that "fantasy is the Other's desire," Fink argues that the analysand's static standoff fantasy stages his interpretation of his mother's unknowable (castrating) desire, locating the clinical structure of neurotic fantasy at the intersection of the preoedipal and the Oedipal and showing how identification with the father functions as a defence against — rather than resolution of — that fundamental fantasy.
I call it preoedipal because, if we look closely at the phases of the male beating fantasy as Freud outlines it, we notice that the second parent is brought in only by way of displacement, in order to disguise what is really at issue.