metascribe quoted Females by Andrea Long Chu (Verso Pamphlets)
Everyone is female "When I say that everyone is female, I mean very simply that …
[. . . ] castration happens on both sides. Men as well as women, for Freud, represented partial, imperfect solutions to the universal threat of castration.[ . . . ] For the little boy, the sight of his sister's genitalia gives rise first to denial, then to unwilling acceptance, then to crushing anxiety that, for any of several sexual crimes, [ . . . ], his father will deprive him of that cherished member. [ . . . ] There's a much more obvious interpretation [ . . . ]: that the little boy, forced by the abyssal glimpse of female genitalia to consider the possibility that his own penis will be removed, secretly finds the idea arousing. "Women don't have penis envy," Valerie fumes in SCUM, "Men have pussy envy." [ . . . ] Indeed, the castration complex is easily mistaken for the fear that one will be castrated; in fact, it is the fear that one, having been castrated, will like it.
— Females by Andrea Long Chu (Verso Pamphlets) (Page 20)
This re-reading of Freud sounds non-Lacanian. How could this rereading be transposed into a Lacanian framework? What would it even mean to "like" castration, and fear liking it? Surely, in Lacanian terms, this would be talking about a particular configuration of desire, perhaps tied to a particular placement or position in the Symbolic. I would think about this further and in more detail if I were more well-read in Lacan and Freud than I am, particularly on the topic of sexuation.