ABSTRACT
It is easier to understand why Jacques Lacan preferred to place the figure of the dummy where the analyst's feelings are, in particular, those that have to do with suffering and separation. It would be a mistake to say that Lacan did not take to heart the experience of his own personal analysis with Loewenstein. An attempt at theorisation is not necessarily defensive, and Sandor Ferenczi gives an insight into the more primitive and crude aspects of introjection and the ferociously cannibalistic aspects of incorporation—those on which the "inspired tripe butcher", his former analysand, laid particular emphasis. Among the ideas vilified by Lacan, tactility and contact are very much in the foreground, not only because of their reference to "the current relation to the object" but also to sensoriality. It is with regard to the idea of identification, incorporation, and introjection that Lacan wants to stay as far away as possible from any consideration of the substance of the object.
