ABSTRACT
This chapter explains infantile sexuality in terms of human ethology or sexual biology. Infantile sexuality is not a separate object within the field of psychoanalysis. It is, as certain phrases of Daniel Widlocher himself tend to indicate, the very object resulting from the territory marked out by the Freudian method. An entire section of Widlocher's argument about knowing whether infantile sexuality is the precursor of adult sexuality seems to the author to come down to defining, within the field of sexuality as a whole (in the child as well as the adult) a specifically psychoanalytic object that is the infantile aspect of the sexual, which could also be called simply the sexual or the infantile. The issue that in effect concludes Widlocher's definition of infantile sexuality is the origin of the autoerotic creative activity.
