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Considerations on children's current sexual theories

Current analysis discusses Freud's concept of infantile sexuality and its importance in the constitution of the child's subjectivity. Freud emphasizes the subject's constitution based on the relationship between the child and its primary caretakers and at the same time maintains the important notion of an infantile sexuality that is repressed but never suppressed from one's unconscious. Results show that the infantile factor is forever present both in children and in adults.

Infantile sexuality; Psychoanalysis; drive


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