ABSTRACT
In Freud's 1919 study "A Child Is Being Beaten", he clearly continues the development of his theorization of drive destinies. The author would express one reservation regarding M. Perron-Borelli's argument insofar as she goes on to say that the construction of fantasy coincides with subjectivation itself. The fact of being a subject of fantasy is precisely what Freud refuses to consider as given, still less as automatic, at this first stage of the process—whence the indefinite mood of his title "A Child Is Being Beaten". Fantasy could be denned as the putting into psychic representation of a relationship in which the subject is implicated. The view of construction of fantasy the author promoting here could appear to contradict the notion of primary narcissistic fantasy, which Freud posited when he introduced the concept of narcissism.
