Maternal perversion and behavioural disorders in children: the example of Dylan, an object of his mother's whims

Based on a clinical case, we studied how so-called behavioral disorders in a child correspond to perverse states of the mother's mind. We show Oedipal fantasies of the mother and see the child's possible position as a fetish. We particularly show that the status of the subject's actions caught up in nonsense and deceit, as a victim of the mother's whims, expresses a desire that falls outside the scope of the phallic principle and is, in itself, perverse. This explains why such a child has no other choice but to become divided and nonsensical.

Maternal perversion; behavioral disorders in a child; aphallic relationship; psychopathy