Lacan introduced the notion of cut in the early 1960s: its refers to the operation (broader than castration, both in scope and in nature) through which the infant's mothering figure (the maternal or ...
1 Department of Clinical Psychology, Aix-Marseille University LPCLS (EA 3278), Marseille, France 2 Institute of Psychology, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil This article ...