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Accidents of seduction and theory of the body

This works starts by presenting a clinical fragment highlighting an episode of acute somatic decompensating in a patient whose psychic functioning suggests neither psychosis nor a case of what is conventionally referred to as psychosomatic disorder. We then aim to grasp the complexity of such a phenomenon from a metapsychological standpoint and, in particular, question the relationship between somatic crisis, psychotic crisis, and sexuality. Next, we make use of the concept of intromission of the sexual message, such as formulated by Jean Laplanche, in order to rearrange it and approach it as an accident of seduction to be comprehended as a radical un-translated with narrow connections to primal inscriptions, stamped in the child's body and proscribed from psyche, originating the amential unconscious. Lastly, we indicates that the possibility of repatriating these proscribed inscriptions depends on a singular psychic work, carried out by the patient him/herself, in the fashion of a working-through brought about by dreaming.

Theory of generalized seduction; psychosomatic disturbance; unconscious


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