The current idea about the love adults nowadays express towards children enlightened by the scientific knowledge is questioned. The difference between the foreigner, the savage and the extraterrestrial figures besides the resources of the psychoanalytical thought allowed the author to elucidate the possible fates that adults phantasmatically reserve to children. The destiny of an education would be, in part, linked to each of these "adult" forms of receiving a child in the world.
Childhood; Psychoanalysis and Education; Child Mistreatment