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Seduction - The Universal Enigma: A Clinical Consideration Of The Subject(ed)
Colman Duggan
Issue 11 — Autumn 1997
16–42
There is an inherent potential for psychical trauma involved in the everyday encounter between the human subject and the culture into which he is born. Trauma emerges from a combination of internal and external factors, as can be seen in the differential responses of individuals to the experience of infantile seduction on the one hand, an external phenomenon, and the emergence of sexuality in the subject on the other, as an internal experience.…
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