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Manque
Manque meaning
unable to fully realise one's ambitions; would-be
Example sentences (2)
Berlioz, p. 430 According to the musical scholar Jean Gallois, it was apropos of this episode that Berlioz made his well-known bon mot about Saint-Saëns, "He knows everything, but lacks inexperience" ("Il sait tout, mais il manque d'inexpérience").
The castration complex is formed when the child discovers that this Other is not complete because there is a " Lack (manque) " in the Other.