The maternal ravage as a psychoanalytic concept by Zawady, Megdy

“…This is how the hypothesis emerges that this term refers to a structural fact to be studied within the clinic of the neuroses, in both male and female sexed subjects. Given the ravage responds to the failure of the symbolic to envelop the mother’s enjoyment, the father-symptom’s insufficiency to interpret the maternal desire is questioned, to the extent that the latter is backed up by another void: the absence of a significant that can articulate the female sex in the unconscious. …”
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