We all know today that the child experiences a desire for the parent of the opposite sex during the Oedipal stage and that the pole of prohibitions and laws is fundamental for children's development, and also that adolescence is a second birth. However, most of the time we ignore what exactly these concepts correspond to, which stem from Freudian psychoanalysis.

Jean-Claude Liaudet attempts to make them understandable and demonstrates that they play an important role in the education of the child. After describing the unconscious and the ways it operates, he traces the development of the child, from the desires of the parents and conception up to the end of adolescence.

This book is a clear synthesis of specific examples that - without providing any "recipe" - will allow parents and education professionals to better understand their children.