Presents a classic essay by Sigmund Freud, followed by discussions that set Freud's work in context and demonstrate its contemporary relevance. The contributors to this volume represent diverse perspectives from different regions of the psychoanalytic world. Ethel Spector Person Preface , Introduction , A Child Is Being Beaten (1919) , Discussion of “A Child Is Being Beaten” , Not for Barbarians , “A Child Is Being Beaten” , Humiliating Fantasies and the Pursuit of Unpleasure , Comments on Freud’s “‘A Child Is Being Beaten’: A Contribution to the Study of the Origin of Sexual Perversions” , The Scene and Its Reverse , “A Child Is Being Beaten” , “A Child Is Being Beaten” and the Battered Child , The Exceptional Position of “A Child Is Being Beaten” in the Learning and Teaching of Freud , Construction of a Fantasy