What the Child Wants More Than Nothing, More Than Anything

Desire first and foremost is desire for the maternal figure. The child pretty quickly realizes that whoever is the maternal figure, they have desires of their own. There's a reason why kids grab smartphones and put them in their diapers. It's because they want you to attend to them the same way you attend to your smartphone. Here represented by the lowercase fee that is in Lacanian terms called the imaginary object. This is whatever the child imagines the maternal figure to be interested in, in addition to the child.