NORMATIVE PSYCHOANALYSIS is both a critique of Sigmund Freud's cultural concept of psychoanalysis, and Freud's theory of the Oedipus Complex. Many young parents believe that psychoanalysis had contributed to the liberation of the child; they think it to be a form of permissiveness, or a variant of permissive education. Pierre F. Walter shows that nothing could be farther from the truth. Freudian psychoanalysis, applied to children, is not permissive, it is castrative; in addition, it is normative, and actually a tool for forging the ideal consumer child within a consumer culture that is based on the economic paradigm of total consumption. While psychoanalysis stresses the autoerotic sexuality of the child and their need to masturbate, the author dares to ask the provocative question if we are set in the world to become briliant masturbators, or if we are rather bound to learn copulating as a form of social interaction with others? Today, we have to make a clear choice, as parents, educators or psychologists, the choice namely if we want to follow the bioenergetic truth of children's emotional and sexual response, or the mythic projections of a 'cultural' conditioning system called psychoanalysis that was set in the world to veil the essential, that is, the fact that fully erotic children are bad consumers, and thus by definition bad citizens in a society that is based not upon love but upon co-dependence, not upon free choice relations for children, but upon emotional manipulation and abuse of children, a society that confuses sex with violence, while violence is exactly the repression of sexual communication, because sex is but that, a very enjoyable form of nonverbal social communication for all ages!
About the Author: PIERRE F. WALTER is an international lawyer, researcher, author and lecturer. After finalizing his studies in German law and European Integration with diplomas in both disciplines in 1982, he graduated in December 1987 at the Law Faculty of the University of Geneva with a 'Docteur en Droit' title in international law. In his criminal law studies, he was specialized on elucidating the roots of violent crime and was for several years caring for prisoners who have been been convicted for sexual crimes against children. Since 1994, he works as a consultant to government in industry, specialized upon service training and human resource development. In addition, he is a personal coach and has developed a self-coaching approach termed 'Life Authoring'. Pierre F. Walter writes, lectures and teaches in English, German and French; he has written more than ten thousand pages embracing all literary genres, including novels, short stories, film scripts, essays, selfhelp books, monographs and extended book reviews. Also a pianist and composer, he has realized 40 CDs with jazz, newage and relaxation music. Pierre F. Walter's professional publications span the domains International Law, Criminal Law, Holistic Science, Psychology, Education, Shamanism, Ecology, Spirituality, Quantum Physics, Systems Research, Natural Healing, Peace Research, Personal Growth, Selfhelp and Consciousness Research. 110 Book Reviews, thirty-eight audio books and more than hundred video lectures were realized in the years 2005-2010. Besides, Pierre F. Walter publishes a series 'Great Minds', which features scientists, artists and authors of genius from Leonardo to Fritjof Capra. Pierre F. Walter publishes via his Delaware firm, Sirius-C Media Galaxy LLC, and the imprints IPUBLICA and Sirius-C Media (SCM).