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Regression (n.) shows ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠nothing but a return to the present of the signifiers used in demands that have lapsed.

Regression (n.) in ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠psychosis is topographical, not genetic: Schreber's 'leprous corpse leading another leprous corpse' is the mirror stage reduced to its fatal face.

Regression (n.) need ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not move the image at all: tilt the mirror and, without the real image budging, a mouth becomes a phallus, a whole desire becomes a fragmented one.

Regression (n.) doesn't ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠exist — no adult actually returns to wailing infancy; it happens on the plane of signification, not of reality, and a child hasn't much room to regress in anyway.

Regression (n.) was ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠first born of a quirk in Freud's diagram: draw a more coherent schema and the notion becomes unnecessary — Freud is as much in difficulty with it as a fish with a fig.