I’m working on my own little POMO glossary, and check this out:
- The Phallus
- “…some critics say the term ‘the Phallus’ in Lacan’s work has as many as eight meanings and some as few as one meaning. One thing everyone pretty much agrees on, though, is that Lacan tries to maintain a distinction between the Phallus as a signifier privileged male attributes, and the penis, as a spongy little organ that can’t live up to the Phallus’s inflated claims.”
Those POMOs have been reading too much spam–or hanging out with some very unmotivated guys.