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Dominique Scarfone, "The Reality of the Message: Psychoanalysis in the Wake of Jean Laplanche" (Unconscious in Translation, 2023)

New Books in Psychoanalysis

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Transmission of Enigmatic Sexual Energy to Children

La Planche explains that adults unconsciously emit a sexual energy towards children, which is not necessarily overtly sexual but arises from the adult's own sexual nature. This energy is perceived as enigmatic or compromised by the child, whose excitable body responds to this communication in a broader sexual context beyond genital arousal, as it is inherently erogenous.

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