The formula of the fantasy presents the imaginary castration of the subject, if one inscribes, on its side, the imaginary signifier that designates the phallus, which is neither the erectile organ, nor truly an image, but rather the part lacking in the desired image (“The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire in the Freudian Unconscious”). In other terms, the phallus is negativized in its place in the specular image, that image on which the libido takes support to transfer itself from the body toward the object. Very early on, the child is interested in the lack in the specular image, because of its pregnancy: the little girl inasmuch as it lacks something for her, and the little boy inasmuch as that something is at risk of being taken away from him. Of course, that decisive operator, the desire of the Other, the enigma of the maternal desire, will have to intervene–which is going to plunge the child into distress (hilflosigkeit)—for the child to find the imaginary solution of representing this desire in the fantasy and thus starting from this lack linked to the body.