disavowal

is a defensive strategy (like repression) whereby, upon recognizing sexual difference, one seeks to protect himself against knowledge of female castration.

For Freud, disavowal is primarily a defensive strategy on the part of the male child who, upon recognizing sexual difference, seeks to protect himself against . . . '

is a structuring mechanism which is produced in response to the splitting that constitutes the subject and a creative attempt to prop up the paternal function.

For Lacan, disavowal is a creative attempt to prop up the paternal function.. . . 'for Lacan, disavowal is a structuring mechanism which is produced in response to the splitting that constit:utes the subject.

is best captured in the phrase 'I know very well, but all the same'.

I know very well, but all the same . . 'For Zizek, disavowal operates like the fetish, in which the subject fashions a stand-in for the object of its real desires, which it can never fully attain.'

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