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Laplanche's Seduction Theory

Laplanche's psychoanalysis is that the other has to impose its sexuality on the child. He thinks even the most hands-off parent is doing something like imposing their sexual being and their whole sexual world on the child so it's not a very common position but i think Laplanche is the only one who really tries to give a real theoretical basis for that idea.

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