Infantile sexuality holds the key to the false dichotomy between the interpersonalist, object relations tradition in psychoanalysis and the tradition of drive theory and metapsychology. The opposition between French psychoanalysis and the British tradition has always been a feature of international psychoanalysis. However, with the rise of interest in attachment theory the gulf of the channel has widened and fundamental epistemological divides have started to emerge. Since the vehicle of infantile sexuality is the experience of the object world, it is inevitable that subtle, bi-directional causal relationships are rapidly established and external experience reinterpreted as autoerotic activity comes to profoundly alter the child's actual interaction. Daniel Widlocher's model explains why sexuality inevitably brings forth infantile object relations representation; that is, why the sexuality the author encounter in the transference is predominantly infantile. The technical challenge Widlocher leaves us with is the consideration of a whole new dimension to clinical understanding: the disentangling of infantile sexuality from object-related but mature drives.