ABSTRACT
Melanie Klein centred the psychoanalytical experience on the primitive relationship of the child with its mother’s breast, focusing on the satisfaction of the child with the breast, the primordial object and she took into account not only exterior obstacles but also interior ones regarding that satisfaction. Jacques Lacan preferred to concentrate on the relation with the other, aligned to the question of intersubjectivity. From the object of desire he then arrives at the relation with the other and a new type of object: the objet (a) cause of desire. According to Lacan, the objet (a) that is at stake is not the object in the world, that which appears in front, as in a mirror, but the object in the subject, to such a point that with ingenuity one can locate it as the cause of the “mismatching” of the conduct supposedly adapted to the world.
