A terrifying child

Based on a reinterpretation of the Oedipus myth and complex, I examine the parental counter-Oedipus at work in certain family situations, and the effects of the projections it may induce within a massive generational inversion. I point out the status of what I call “the terrifying child”, linked to, although differentiated from, the mistreated child and the incested child, informed by a clinical case study of psychotherapeutic work with a child I accompanied until his adolescence.