Preface / Ethel Spector Person --
Introduction / Ethel Spector Person --
Part one. A child is being beaten (1919) / Sigmund Freud --
Part two. Discussion of "A child is being beaten" --
Not for barbarians : an appreciation of Freud's "A child is being beaten" / Jack Novick and Kerry Kelly Novick --
"A child is being beaten" : a clinical, historical, and textual study / Patrick Joseph Mahony --
Humiliating fantasies and the pursuit of unpleasure / Arnold H. Modell --
Comments on Freud's "'A child is being beaten' : a contribution to the study of the origin of sexual perversions" / Leonard Shengold --
The scene and its reverse : considerations on a chain of associations in Freud / Marcio de F. Giovannetti --
"A child is being beaten" : a seminar with candidates from the perspective of contemporary psychoanalysis / Jean-Michel Quinodoz --
"A child is being beaten" and the battered child / Isidoro Berenstein --
The exceptional position of "A child is being beaten" in the learning and teaching of Freud / Rivka R. Eifermann --
Construction of a fantasy : "A child is being beaten" / Marcelo N. Vinar.