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Lucille is a child possessing a certain kind of emotional investment, a kind of total love that the latency period cannot nullify. Or, if we were to look at the same reality of emotions as in a mirror, we might wonder whether Lucille is choosing to remain in latency in order not to annul/to lose/to leave this type of loving. There are people who, even though later in their evolution into adulthood have known or will know many other forms of loving, choose/prefer/want/are considering themselves truly emotionally fulfilled in this kind of loving, in which the princeps attribute is their total emotional investment in the “now”, “here” and “in this object”.
Florence Guignard said in 2006, which is supported by the paper concerning the subject, that the “latency period”, as Freud described it, is now endangered. This is a real and valid thing in today's society, in which the cultural, social, moral (and why not - political?) do not validate the discharging operation as a psychic princeps mechanism which would enable access to a neurotic structure, but we are going towards borderline structures and structuring. Lucille's hyper-matureness can be seen from this perspective. On the other hand, hyper-matureness is one of the “valuable” attributes of an institutionalized child.
Another perspective on Lucille's hyper-matureness and precocity could be made explicit as follows: in this world/life, for a good sense of testing and mastering the reality, there would be two ways available, both having as mechanism the interpreting of the events from the inner world and, at the same time, the outside world and life itself. Psychoanalytic psychotherapy is