es, "They were ladies, all kinds: holding up cans of cleanser, knitting, smiling, modeling toeless high heels and nylons with dark seams and pillbox hats with veils...I did want to be those things". She wants to fill the gap that has been left by her ent!
             rance into the Imaginary by becoming just like her mother. It will be my point to demonstrate later that the narrator falls outside the phallocentric order formed by her entry into the third phase, the SYMBOLIC.
             The symbolic is the entrance into society itself, also known as the Phallus, Other with a capital o, and the Name of the Father. Laciness' idea of a governing principal in society is very similar to Freud's. The structuring principle determines how we form our view of self and how others do the same.
             The center has a lot of names in Lacanian theory. It's the Other; it's also called the PHALLUS. The Other (capital O) is a structural position in the Symbolic order. It is the place that everyone is trying to get to, to merge with, in o
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