The Image of the Other Is Not Symbolic Castration

I think that the first structure was the idea that how the non castrated status of the other is so dependent on the image of the other, right? So it's interesting that it's symbolic castration, but it's the image that protects us from the confrontation with symbolic castration. I got lost in thinking about this other incident of me being in the car and just like leaning my head against the back seat. My parents were driving and there was this car of like rowdy teenage boys and they were like taunting me basically on the highway,. And I flipped them off and like that was like, that didn't make me feel any better.