Farkas, Olivia

Infantile sexual theories: which confusions of tongues? - 2022.


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Taking Sigmund Freud’s texts on infantile sexuality as a starting-point, I adumbrate Sándor Ferenczi’s concept of the confusion of tongues between adults and the child to show its pertinence in contemporary clinical work with children and adolescents. A multitude of confusions are possible in the case of traumatic situations of sexual abuse and also in the psychic construction of the subject.