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The après-coup must be something more than the subsequent organizing of an earlier situation in terms of sexual information and the threat of castration. Jeanneau believes that the reanimation of a scene that was not understood brings with it the memory of the powerlessness experienced earlier. This helplessness, this sense of dissolution, could be at the origin of the malaise, at the point where the ego fails with respect to its objects. The author emphasizes ego defect and narcissistic wound,