The Selective Subconscious

As described by the father of psychiatry
is one where if a child describes
an adult sexually assaulting them 
then the child is describing a fantasy.
It did not actually happen. 

Even though of the two,
child and adult, the latter
has more of an awareness of a choice
of behaviour, and will decide for both,
what both of them will say and do,
and what would be admitted to, after.

Whereas when a teenage boy yearns
for the sense of space, the freedom to act,
that he sees in the property owning adults
around him, who he is the property of
and they own the space they act in,
and he expresses that yearning as power
-the death of his father,
and sex-the rape of his mother
then he explores them in Oedipal terms. 

Because Oedipus was the fictional character
who could not recognise the distance
his parents intentionally kept from him,
fearing the curse that had been cast on him
when he was an infant. 

Is every child that adults keep
at such a distance from them so cursed?
Discuss..... 

It seems banal to ascribe
'double standards' to the reasoning
that justifies the detachment of the adults
who own everything there is to be owned
which also bars intelligent children
from the partial self knowledge
of identifying how to grow out
of 'being cared for'.

Children who have no choice
but to be disbelieved
make thoroughly disbelieving adults.