Daniel Widlöcher is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. He is a full member and training analyst of the French Psychoanalytical Association, former President of the International Psychoanalytical Association, Professor Emeritus at the University Paris VI (Pierre et Marie Curie University), and former Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris. He has written numerous publications on psychiatry and psychoanalysis. He trained as a medical doctor at the Paris Medical School, and he has received the International Psychoanalytical Association Sigourney Award as well as the Lima Ponticife University Doctor Honoris Causa.
Freud wrote in 1905 that children’s sexual life, although dominated by the erogenous zones, also has components in which, from the beginning, other people appear as sexual objects. These people — the... (more)