For the boy, the presumed orthodoxy of the priest's teachings has already given

way to the orthopaedic acknowledgement of the vanity of religion's trappings and

human existence in the face of decepritude and death, and in this rectification
rather than the rectitudinous sermonizing of his entourage lies the possibility
of his true optical erection, the task that, for Lacan, psychoanalysis as ortho
dramatisation de la subjectivit du sujet must equally assign itself.