CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE: A PSYCHOANALYTIC PERSPECTIVE ON TRAUMA IN ADULT LIFE

Abstract

This article aims to discuss the manifestations and consequences of trauma in adults who suffered sexual abuse in childhood from the psychoanalytic perspective of Freud (1920/1996) and Ferenczi. For this, a qualitative documentary research was carried out on the film Stolen Innocence (2018), an adaptation of the show Les Chatouilles, a French production by directors Andréa Bescond and Éric Métayer. Child sexual abuse is a violence that affects children from different parts of the world and represents a risk factor for human development that can leave marks for the victim's entire life, producing devastation in the psychic structure and causing great damage to the individual. It is concluded that psychotherapy is important in the process of reframing trauma, since it leads the individual to have a real perception of what was experienced.