The elements provided by Freud when theorizing about fantasies inevitably lead to doubts and obscurity. The aim of the present paper is to build a reflection on the questions arising out of the Freudian treatment to the problem, following his own articles and the development suggested by Pontalis and especially by Laplanche in the construction of his theory of generalized seduction which has as central concepts the enigmatical signifier and the source-object of the drive. Thus Laplanche makes possible the argumentation that the seduction is not a punctual event but an element which allows thinking the origins of the psychic subject in his universality.
Psychoanalyis; fantasy; seduction; Freud; Laplanche