You will perceive that the place which is assigned there to this imaginary inertia is the one which, later, when Lacan will have taken up Freud’s “Beyond the Pleasure Principle” again, is the same place in which it will be necessary for him to inscribe the inertia of jouissance. ###>C’est ce type d’observation qui fait dire à Lacan que le surgissement du phallus est l’élément central de ce qu’il appelle «le comique pur».