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Threefold Lack
- Lacan's concept of lack is threefold: sexuality, alienation, and separation.
- These relate to the living organism, the subject, and the Other, respectively.
Sexuality as Lack
- Sexuality, the first lack, relates to the living organism and the constraints of sexual reproduction.
- It involves a loss of a polymorphous relationship to the body, referred to as libido.
Alienation and the Subject
- The second lack, alienation, concerns the subject's advent through the symbolic, the big Other.
- It involves a split subjectivity and the self's experience of lack for the subject.