Main description:

This is the first English translation of a popular French title that has been in print since 1996 and has been published in Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Turkish. It forms part of the popular IPA Psychoanalytic Ideas and Applications series and has a ready network for promotion. It has clinical and academic appeal.

Contents:

1. The Infantile in the analytic relationship 2. Hans and Sigi: sexual theories as defences against the discovery of infantile sexuality 3. The guilt of the child's desire 4. The sources of projective identification 5. The depressive position and the Oedipal complex 6. A stroll in the preconscious 7. The unknown object of the transference 8. Leonardo and Sigmund: love, hate and knowledge 9. The adult analyst's countertransference in the light of the transference of the child in analysis 10. Concerning Don Giovanni's women: some aspects of female auto-erotism 11. Between the tree and the bark: the psychotherapist in institutions 12. Pregenitality and the primal scene or the fantasized fate of the digestive tract 13. Sexual life and identificatory reorganizations in adolescence 14. The cost of pubertal transformations 15. Child and adolescent psychoanalysis 16. Conclusion