The figure of the father as sexual harasser of his young daughters…stands in the very center of the so-called “false-memory syndrome”: Here, also, the suspended father as the agent of symbolic authority, i.e., the embodiment of a symbolic fiction, “re- turns in the real.” (What causes such controversy is the contention of those who advocate recovery of memories of childhood sexual abuses that sexual harassment by the father is not merely fantasized or, at least, an indissoluble mixture of fact and fantasy, but a plain fact, something that, in the majority of families, “really happened” in the daughter’s childhood

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