ABSTRACT
The General Theory of Seduction has its origin in a generalization of Freud's theory of seduction. The General Theory of Seduction seeks to give an account of the genesis of the psychosexual apparatus of the human being, starting from interhuman relationships and not from biological origins. Seduction is not a contingent, pathological, or episodic relation even though it can sometimes appear in that form. The Fundamental Anthropological Situation confronts an adult, who has an unconscious that is sexual but essentially pregenital, with an infant, who has not yet constituted an unconscious, nor the opposition of unconscious-preconscious in a dialogue that is both symmetrical at one level and asymmetrical at another. The partial failure of translation gives an account of the "classical" normal-neurotic unconscious. The failure of translation can result notably from an intergenerational transmission, without any metabolization. The Freudian model of the "apparatus of the soul" is a normal-neurotic model.
