ABSTRACT
Clinical psychoanalysis is particularly sensitive to the effects of external realities on the internal realities of the subject. Primary seduction gives us an idea of the complexities of the primary relationship in the infans with its object, while according full importance to the place of the repressed traces of infantile sexuality. Primary seduction is established in an atmosphere of excitation, of instinctual drive force, of fantasies in a dissymmetrical intersubjective relationship, woven in a network of intra- and interpsychic complexities: the infant's desires are matched by the mother's desire. For seduction to be operative, the mother must be able both to survive the violent instinctual drive impulses that the infant expresses towards her and to enable it to find an object that is sufficiently close to the one that its fantasies have led it to create in its mind. The relationship of primal seduction is often the locus of painful experiences, of lack or excess.
