Female Object, a father-metaphor

Freud speaks of „erection of the object“ – but only in connection with melancholy.¹ However, the idea of the (psychoanalytical) object can absolutely be used for the erection in the way I describe it with a slash, upstroke here. Then it doesn’t happen to be an psychic object, an object of desire, maternal object, but an ‘ideal object’, or expressed in a different way: a ‘female object’ (as opposed to phallus²).

Freud didn’t know meditation and didn’t know what to do with the ‘oceanic feeling’ of Samadhi, the feeling of numerous ‘points of erection’ in a psychophysical sense.

This concerns points which any subject can perceive in his body image, namely just at the verge to the above mentioned „border of linguistics“, be it through external coincidences or through meditation. We find these ‘points’ (be they slightly disfigured or not) in acupuncture and in the eastern system of meridians. But also the idea of ‘female erection’ wouldn’t be bad as a term for the SPEAKS (verbal signifier) emerging from numerous points of SHINES (imaginary signifier).

With this we can avoid purely antiquated terms, such as dabar and memra, but also pure Yoga terms, such as darshan or samadhi. It’s an object-like erection, which could also be simply called mental stability, a ‘female’ fortitude. Constant exercise, and also through my description later on of the ‘assignment of the Other’, supports this stability.

In exactly equating such a ‘female object’ (female erection or fortitude) with the father-metaphor (Name of the Father), this is not to surprise the reader. Psychoanalyst R. Golan elaborated thoroughly on this identification. Indulging in the ‘female object’, or in the father-metaphor represents a different kind of pleasure, a pleasure which transcends phallic pleasure in that it also contains pain and suffering … and on the other hand, also universalism, elevation, boundlessness, cognizance, enlightenment, knowledge, liberty and bliss.³