"Laplanche and Pontalis maintain that the most basic fantasies are located at the juncture of an irrecoverable real event that took place somwhere in the past and a totally imaginary event that never took place. The "event" whose temporal and spatial existence can never be fixed is thus ultimately, according to Laplanche and Pontalis, that of "the origins of the subject"--an origin which psychoanalysts tell us cannot be seperated from the discovery of sexual difference (11)."

"original fantasy"

Where 2 go from here?

- Sigmund Freud, Instincts and their Vicissitudes - Jean Laplanche and J.B. Pontalis, Fantasy and the Origins of Sexuality

c. September 9th, 2026