What is a Child?

Gerard Plastow, Michael

• Appreciation -- Introduction -- The Child and the Infantile: History and Time -- The child: between history and structure -- A change of discourse: Freud’s abandonment of the seduction hypothesis -- The fantasm: a transformational formula -- Psychoanalysis As a Child and Its Protagonists -- The illegitimate beginnings of the field of psychoanalysis of the child -- The place of the parents: “the child does not come of his own accord” -- The leaking tap: the symptom of the child -- Discourses on Childhood -- The ages of the child -- The upbringing of the child: between nature and culture -- Condillac’s statue: from the sentiment of childhood to the sensuality of the child -- A new discourse: the child as sexual subject -- The Child and the Subject -- From the razing of the child to the advent of the subject -- Epilogue