ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with Freud’s search for an aetiology of the neuroses that was sexual, specific and acquired. An aetiological explanation that could displace heredity from the causal position it had traditionally occupied in the French clinical tradition. But later, other problems unfolded: on the one hand, that of temporalities that articulate the past and the present in a non-linear way and that determine reciprocal influences between both temporal instances; on the other hand, the tension between reality and phantasy in the testimonies of traumatic experiences.
