Topic: Part from a psychoanalytic book
Anonymous A started this discussion 7 years ago #82,308
A child may sexualise the non-sexual. For example, an adolescent boy of 16 has several memories of his childhood that have been pleasant ones: at 4, sitting on his father’s lap watching a football match; at 6, sitting with his mother in a jacuzzi for a few minutes of bliss; at 8, fishing in a boat with his uncle. At 16, however, now that he is much more aware of bodies and their sexualities, it briefly
occurs to him that of course the father’s lap was an area of the father’s genitals.
He recalls his mother in a bathing costume, and now sees the shape of her body rather differently. He has read about children being molested by uncles, cousins
and other relatives, and the thought crosses his mind that maybe this was why the uncle took him fishing that day. These ideas and other retrospective investments will usually be unconscious or preconscious and will not go anywhere; that is,they will not strike the self as believable. Not, that is, unless the child is part of an epidemic of suspicion, such as exists especially in certain areas of England and North America, where a child undergoing an ordinary retrospection might
suddenly believe that it happened.
Does the behavior that is described, sound familiar in any way?
occurs to him that of course the father’s lap was an area of the father’s genitals.
He recalls his mother in a bathing costume, and now sees the shape of her body rather differently. He has read about children being molested by uncles, cousins
and other relatives, and the thought crosses his mind that maybe this was why the uncle took him fishing that day. These ideas and other retrospective investments will usually be unconscious or preconscious and will not go anywhere; that is,they will not strike the self as believable. Not, that is, unless the child is part of an epidemic of suspicion, such as exists especially in certain areas of England and North America, where a child undergoing an ordinary retrospection might
suddenly believe that it happened.
Does the behavior that is described, sound familiar in any way?
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Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 7 years ago, 13 minutes later[^] [v] #951,058
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Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 7 years ago, 4 minutes later, 18 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #951,061
Sheila LaBoof joined in and replied with this 7 years ago, 11 minutes later, 29 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #951,064
there's no fish in this hole
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 7 years ago, 3 minutes later, 33 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #951,065
Sheila LaBoof replied with this 7 years ago, 11 minutes later, 45 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #951,073
you know, the uncle taking you "fishing"
Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 7 years ago, 5 minutes later, 50 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #951,076
is this syntaxbait