ABSTRACT
Through the original perception, an external and passive perception the child receives, under the effect of parental seduction, the germs of adult sexuality in the most primitive and outlying depths of the mind. The inner perception of memory and the concomitant linking of memory fragments with partial driving forces transfer these two elemental and immediate realities into a new area of the mind’s apparatus: the mental scene. Thus, they deprive the driving forces of their savagery, their tendency to blind repetition, their flesh, introducing them to the new order of representation, negation, and signification. Mental reality gathers together, by shifting them, all the realities that originally confront the human subject. That is why the designation of “mental scene” is so meaningful, provided that its restrictive aspect is not overlooked, for shifting is not enough to constitute a scene.
