ABSTRACT
The happy consequence of a sexual intercourse between adults is, at times, the birth of a child. The tragic consequence of a sexual intercourse between an adult and a child is always the death of a child. This simple brutal truth is the heavy weight that hits the analyst when he becomes close to an abused child, or to someone who had been abused as a child. Adults too struggle to visualise an abusive situation, especially if the perpetrator is someone close, someone 'above suspicion', so it happens frequently that when the child finds the strength and words to ask for help, he meets up with a barrier of disbelief and accusation that leaves him in the most desperate solitude. An abuse finds infinite representations to express itself. The betrayal of a partner becomes an obscure evil that nests in the body and invades the mind. An examination turns into the fear of an invasion leaving behind a nameless anguish.
