Conversely, as beloved, both child and mother give what they do not have:
- the child is the stand-in for the mother’s missing phallus (without knowing it);
- the mother, who has not yet been perceived as deprived by the child, is considered as omnipotent and thus capable of satisfying all his demands.
In this way, what both the child and the mother give without having is the phallus: a temporary superimposition of lacks is obtained