first, Sandor Ferenczi understood the need to listen to the words of people who claimed to have been abused. The first, psychoanalyst, Hungarian, realized that if the children could have behaviour deceivers, those were not the signs of a sexual desire, but a need for affection. Yet, this disciple of Freud has long been rejected by the faithful of the great Sigmund. Why ? In the biography* which he dedicates (released August 26, Flammarion), Benoit Peeters tells the story, based on an archive of first-hand, how one of the greatest theorists…

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” Françoise Dolto used to say things that are more absurd that Freud “