ABSTRACT
If narcissism tends to the sameness, sexuality – more precisely sexuality – tends to meet necessarily the question of difference and therefore inevitably that of the object. In Freud’s “official” theory of infantile sexuality, the object is absent; infantile sexuality is said to be “autoerotic, without object and supported by an activity necessary for self-preservation”. It is a “narcissistic” theory of child sexuality in which the place of the object is erased and with it the participation of the object’s responses to the child’s impulsive construction. This chapter develops the effects of the reintroduction of the object’s place in the child’s sexuality and from there proposes an evolution of the model toward a processual model of the operations of sexualization and desexualization in the psychic processes. This reflection leads to the notion of a “language of the sexual” in human sexuality.
