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2) The role of the message compromised by the unconscious fantasies of the adults as the vehicle for seduction, rather than of the facts and events taking place in the relations between adults and children. The message acts as the mediator between reality and psychic reality; 3) A specific definition of seduction; 4) The asymmetry between adult and child, which is echoed in the analytic situation; 5) The realism of the unconscious which, though formed from left overs of a message coming from another person – the compromised and non-translatable part of this message – acquires a thing-like quality by being cut out from the meaning and from signification (Laplanche, 1987, Tessier, 2014a, Tessier 2014b). Like other critics of the use of the USA concept of intersubjectivity in psychoanalysis, Laplanche is reluctant to refer to notions such as subject, subjectivity and intersubjectivity; in his view, psychoanalysis was born out of the discovery that the sexual unconscious, manifesting itself like a force which seems alien to the individual, is inaccessible to education or goodwill, and is irreducible to a psychology of needs and motivation. Laplanche’s debate with the relational and constructivist approach in American psychoanalysis also revolve around the issue of alienation: in his view, by refusing the “ alien” character of unconscious and of the way unconscious fantasies make themselves known, the relational schools have deprived themselves of the possibility of thinking in terms of dis-alienation. In Laplanche’s view, they consequently have missed the opportunity of accounting for the emancipatory action of psychoanalysis (Laplanche 1999b,c). III. Ccc. Green And Roussillon: The Qualified Acceptance of Intersubjectivity Within the Intrapsychic/ Intersubjective Dialectic Though the US intersubjective orientation as such gets a very reserved reception in French psychoanalysis, British object relations theory and British Middle School gained a considerable influence in French psychoanalytic circles and lead to an integration of the concept of intersubjectivity by way of what is usually called the dialectic between intrapsychic and intersubjective (Green 2002) - or intrapsychic and interpersonal (Roussillon 2004). André Green (2002) does not usually refer to intersubjectivity as such, but to “ the intersubjective ” 1 (Transforming an adjective into a noun through the use of a definite article substantializes the concept and make it more abstract, more philosophical. It is a common trend in French psychoanalysis, as in: “le sexuel”, “l’infantile”, “l’actuel”, “le négatif “, “le pulsionnel”. ) In opposition to Laplanche and others who have favored Freud´s (first) topography, Green has in his numerous writings pointed to the second topography/structural theory as being more helpful in the work with non-neurotic patients.
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