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Mother for Lacan is not anatomical in any way, it's a function. It's a subject position. And then down here you have the child who notices that the mother has something else that they're interested in. This fee up here is called the imaginary phallus. So what the child learns to do is identify with this thing,. Whether it's grabbing the car keys and putting them in the diaper, grabbing the phone and running off with it or hiding it., thinking that if I can approximate what other mother is into, I will eventually get her attention.