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- In psychoanalysis, a theory propounded by Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) from 1895 to 1897, and then abandoned, according to which neuroses were attributed to repressed memories of sexual seduction in childhood.
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May 28, 2006 · Summary. For many years, Freud's “seduction theory” of neurosis was seen as an erroneous if initially plausible step on his way to the mature theory of psychoanalysis, and his account of his rejection of the seduction theory was taken essentially at face value.
- Gerald N. Izenberg
- 1991
Freud's seduction theory (German: Verführungstheorie) was a hypothesis posited in the mid-1890s by Sigmund Freud that he believed provided the solution to the problem of the origins of hysteria and obsessional neurosis.
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This early seduction was mostly reconstructed by Freud from the patient's verbal material and behavior in treatment (including memories of sexual experiences from later childhood) which he interpreted as disguised and incomplete “reproductions” and reenactments of the original seduction trauma.
- Jean G. Schimek
- 1987
Freud and the Seduction Theory* MIKKEL BORCH-JACOBSEN Translated by Douglas Brick 1. Etymologically, the infant is an animal without language: infans, it does not speak. Or, if it speaks, it babbles, making up stories, speaking illogically and irrationally. How then could a child be taken as a qualified witness? How could we
Aug 22, 2024 · One example includes cover-ups of assault within the Weinstein Company under the thrall of power and fear. But institutional betrayals also include institutional psychology and psychoanalysis, and the denial and dissociation from the reality of trauma that has happened there.
