The identifications; crossroads quote, dating crossroads

Abstract

Clinical facts and theoretical notions as described by different authors belonging in different schools of psychoanalysis are the guidelines along which I express my own reflections on identifications. A vast, complex, and inexhaustible issue having an
enigmatic nature. Our clinical work, our reflections, our theories, they all re-turn, they keep repeating themselves and gaining new meanings, they enter into a feed—back process, are imbricated in new crossroads, and give way to new approaches.
Since the mythic origin of the subject, the primary and secondary identifications are interwoven and resignified in a process framed by the oedipal structure. Meetings (and failed meetings) flow towards a crossroad where wish, love, loss, absence, death, pain,
and mourning are present. A crossroad which involves the infans and the Other, the subject and his neighbor, the other. This is a convergence of quotations, of features —the unique feature of the neighbor, which the subject appropriates, shifted from the object and condensed into the subject— which create an original meaning. The metaphor and the metonymy, origin of a process which is both a creation and a creator. Integration of the difference which gives origin —upon its occurrence— to a new difference. A game of the significant(s). (Narcissistic, mirror) imaginary identifications —which contribute to keeping erect the illusion of the phallus— and symbolic identifications (whose access is granted by repression and symbolic castration). Rather than to a chronological succession, they correspond to an ordering that was structured in logical times. Both the primary and the secondary identifications are solidarily molded into a (not exclusively) symbolic matrix which pre—figures and organizes the mirror, which precedes the birth of the child and awaits for him.
The mother’s wish creates an image which would not be limited to her child’s being, to his existence independently of hers, but would rather have already been attributed the masculine or feminine sex. This is the image the child will find in his mother’s glance,
transmitting her wish. An image which knots the future actual body with the (symbolic)  name of the child, already chosen before his birth. The real, the imaginary and the symbolic, all interwoven in this matrix which is anticipating the mirror.
His cry, the spokesman of the body transfixed with pain, links him to the language. A body which becomes both a text and a texture. A body linked to a name which, even before his birth, inscribes the child in a discourse, grants him a filiation, places him
symbolically within a genealogy. 
The phantasy, a turning round upon the subject’s own self and a reversal into the opposite, the transitional object, the objecta, they ah play also a role in the identifications which give origin to the subject in his alterity —even if struggling in a crossroad, an existing and discriminated being, but also provided with a sexual identity.