Lacan was the first to emphasize these themes, which were enough to challenge the whole of Oedipus; and he shows the existence of a social complex where the subject at times attempts to assume his own role but at the price of a splitting of the sexual object into a rich woman and a poor woman and at other times ensures the unity of the object, but this time at the price of a splitting of his own social function at the other extremity of the chain.