‘The Caduceus, the Dragon, the Serpent, the Phallus, Wine and other emblems have been used extensively by all races to symbolise the Fires of the Holy Trinity of the Creator/Maintainer/Destroyer…  Give me someone who has fashioned his own life no matter what the result rather than he who has merely accepted what society has chosen for him… The world is full of men… and women… with the seed of genius but so very few of them have the phallus… and desire… to implant their seed, or the courage born of experience to nurture it in the rough soil of their environment.’ ’ (The Opening of the Third Eye, p.106  & Esoteric Anatomy, p.107/8, Baker Douglas, Dr., Little Elephant, 2001)

Ψ The Phallus - Freud’s cigar, in terms of psychoanalysis, is not ‘the penis’ but can be any observable object or item that demonstrates a rate of change, such as…

	a burning cigarette… (L. I.)
	a meal being eaten… (L. I.)
	a swing with a child on it…
	a speedometer…
	a pregnant woman…
	a penis for a man… or…
	a child for a woman… whose husband failed to return the nurturing support to her ...                                 (Philip Hill, Lacan for Beginners, Writers & Readers Publishing, Inc. 1997, ISBN 0-86316-227-4)

Ψ Phallus is also a signifier, ‘an observable word’ imposed on our intra-subjectivity denoting…

	our identity…
	abilities…
	position of power…

within the register of law and order in our society.

Ψ The phallus is one way of making jouissance, enjoyment in life, it is not the same as pleasure. (Philip Hill,
Lacan for Beginners, Writers & Readers Publishing, Inc. 1997; A Compendium of Lacanian Terms, Edited by Huguette Glowinski, et al.., Free Association Books, 2001)

Ψ The Phallus can be an object…

	in which and through which the drive attains its aim… unless it is repressed…
	which the ego wants…
	which is the surplus of meaning…
	the surplus of enjoyment… different from pleasure.

Ψ The Phallus can be … a…

·        Real Object – Real Phallus, such as a mother’s breast (Lacan) or a man’s organ that repeats the patriarchal gestures of Freud ...  (in terms of meeting of the dependency needs, emotional nurturing
and equal rights)

·        Symbolic Object - Symbolic Phallus that represents asymmetry in the question of sexual difference that can not be negated unlike the imaginary… (in terms of meeting of the dependency needs, emotional nurturing and equal rights)

	A signifier – a word, a mental image of an acoustic image that produces what is signified (the presence or absence of meaning invested in power that generates enjoyment for us) as the referent through which the metaphor operates…
	It belongs to the dimension in which elements are constituted by virtue of their mutual differences reflected in language…

·       Imaginary Object – Imaginary Phallus (symbolising personal power and resulting enjoyment) that circulates between…

	a mother and a child…
	lovers…
	friends…
	acquaintances…
	business partners…
	authority figures and people that follow…
	between people in general…

We want them because of what we think they have… or who we think they are… that we don’t think we have… or are… ourselves…

… and these terms can be synonymous at times… (Dylan Evans, An Introductory Dictionary of Lacanian Psychoanalysis, Routledge, 1996)

There are men and women who do think they are the phallus, or simply have it. There are people who think they aren’t, or haven’t... got the phallus… yourself?  

Ψ Personal Power is represented by Phallic Function, and loss of power to fulfil one’s desire is represented by castration. Wherever the phallus functions there is also castration…… so, in terms of psychoanalysis:

	an athlete suffering with a heavy dose of flu is due to run an important race…
	someone whose business fails…
	someone who discovers not being able to have children one wanted…
	one who fails to get attention or recognition from the significant other …(L. I.)
	one who fails to achieve in life…(L. I.)

… might be said to be castrated…

So, the idea of limit, as demonstrated by a rise or fall (P. H.), or a beginning and end (L. I.), is the phallic function…(P. H.),  which is a common place within the linear and sequential mode of conceptualisation within the duality of our existence. Synergy is not to be perceived on this level of psycho-physical operations.

Ψ Castration of the Phallus is not a surgical procedure but a reduction in Phallic Function. Sexuality always focuses on ‘the other’ – on the one with the phallus. (Philip Hill, Lacan for Beginners, Writers & Readers Publishing, Inc. 1997)

The phallus and what it represents in one’s mind, when taken away or refused to the subject stands for the castration of enjoyment in life, that it brings along with it. Therefore one may seek its substitute, or go into depression, or do something else… more constructive… instead.

Ψ The RELATION between CASTRATION and the PHALLUS is based on the premise that the object, which reflects the currently measured degree of our personal power and the reason for our enjoyment, is lacking. (Lacan)

·        Imaginary Lack of

	a Real Object - Real Phallus, such as loss of mother’s breast, (or an injury)…
	related to the subjective experience…
	attributed to the Symbolic Mother as an agent…
	of the resulting imaginary FRUSTRATION…
	(Freud:  a fear of losing boy’s penis where the agent is the father)…

·        Real Lack of

	a Symbolic Object - Symbolic Phallus, such as the real PRIVATION of the mother…
	stands for a symbolic object, because symbolised and thus brought to our reality and  attention through symbolic formal system - the language, as in the Real - the Void… and nothing is missing there… Quantum Healing
	an agent is the Imaginary Father, who takes the mother away from the child…

·        Symbolic Lack

‘symbolic’ because symbolised through language in the register of law and order) of the Imaginary
Object – Imaginary Phallus,  that…

	stands for one’s personal power and enjoyment that it brings along…
	or an imaginary debt to be paid back…
	related to symbolic CASTRATION of the imaginary phallus…
	the agent of this act is the Real Father…

Ψ In terms of psychoanalysis all of us are subject to the UNCONSCIOUS CASTRATION which structures our symptoms and regulates our development related to sexual identification, conscious and unconscious, which navigates the course we take in our personal life history. (Dylan Evans, An Introductory Dictionary of Lacanian Psychoanalysis, p.137, Routledge, 1996, L. I.) Here the Grand Paradox raises its head again… castration is necessary to regulate our relationship and yet it simultaneously creates conditions for a lesser or graver degree of psychopathology.

 Any of the modes of lack experienced during early years of our development may resonate within our psycho-physical system of mind and body, incessantly talking to each other throughout our life and cause uneasy pangs of emotion of ‘wanting something that is lacking’, that we seek to change. In search of some sort of relief from the perception of lack and emotions attached to it we often reach for substitutes such as mind altering substances or rituals. We repress our unconscious wishes in a process of condensation, displacement and conversion into a symptom or symptomatic behaviour.  

‘Discontent, insecurity and fear all stem from lack of experience and indicate need for self-reliance… Watch those searching, seeking, serving, experiencing. They follow not the self-made rules, standards and codes of men, but their self-made laws, caring not for public censure or comment.

Such men are even now upon the earth,
Serene amid the half-formed creatures around.
For men begin to pass their nature’s bound,
And find new hopes and cares which fast supplant
Their proper joys and grief; they grow too great
For narrow creeds of right and wrong.
                                                                            - from Paracelsus by Robert Browning

(The Opening of the Third Eye, Baker Douglas, Dr., p.106, Little Elephant, 2001)