FORFØRELSESTEORI OG MISBRUG

Laplanches generaliserede forførelsesteori

Abstract

The paper outlines the development in Jean Laplanche's thinking from the critical reading of Freud in Life and Death in Psychoanalysis (1970) to the generalized theory of seduction in New fundaments for psychoanalysis (1987). The concepts of 'originary seduction' and the 'enigmatic message' are shown to operate as focii that permit a reconfiguration of earlier material concerning the origin of infantile sexuality as an implantation in the child from the parental universe, at the same time renewing the theory of psychoanalysis. One consequence of this is a more consistent ability to distinguish normal implantation from the violent, intromissive implantation, the latter being the concept for pedophile abuse of children.