Le corps des affects : sentiments et matérialités

Sexualisation and the transition from childhood to adulthood in France: From age-related child development control to the construction of civilisational divides

“…But sexuality – in particular infant sexuality – is more traditionally a means of tracing the natural, in particular in view of the specific symbolism with which childhood and sexuality are charged. Children have been placed half-way between the zoe (miniature human being) and the bios (child of the city-state at the moment he or she acquires culture and language) and half-way between nature and culture (Diasio, 2012). As far as sexuality is concerned, it is at once the means by which the human race propagates itself and that by which the being becomes human (by means of the accompanying rituals, the social activity which surrounds it – alliances between groups, exchange of partners – or the sublimated use of sexual pulsions conceived of by Freud as intrinsic to the human race).…”