Scene of seduction
The scene of seduction can be defined as a real or fantasmatic scene, in which the subject (generally a child) undergoes passively, on behalf of an other person (generally an adult or a older child), advances or operations sexual.
The scene of seduction is the imaginary explanation of the origin of sexuality. This theory was worked out by Sigmund Freud, in its comprehension of the hysteria, which he thinks initially related to a real scene of rape (theory of seduction or Neurotica) then related to the phantasms referring to the scene of seduction (real or imaginary).
To say that the scene of seduction is passively lived does not mean only that the subject has a passive behavior in this scene, but that it undergoes it without it being able to evoke at his place answer, without it echoing sexual representations. The state of passivity is correlative of nona preparation. The scene of seduction thus produces a sexual fear. This is due to the fact that the child is located in the prégénital and consequently, in the présexuel, contrary to the adult. The sexual event is brought outside on a subject which is not yet capable of sexual emotion (it is thus impossible for him to integrate the experiment).
Sources: Vocabulary of psychoanalysis of Laplanche and Pontalis
Studies on hysteria of Sigmund Freud and Breuer
Birth of the psychoanalysis correspondence of Freud with Fliess
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