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Freud had a lot of data as evidence for the seduction theory, but rather than presenting the actual data on which he based his conclusions (his clinical cases and what he had learned from them) or the methods he used to acquire the data (his psychoanalytic technique), he instead addressed only the evidence that the data he reportedly acquired were accurate (that he had discovered genuine abuse).
The central idea in the paper became known as Freud's seduction theory, though scholars have noted "seduction" is a misleading name for the assaults and molestation described in the paper. Under pressure from negative reactions to his work, Freud publicly retracted the seduction theory by 1905. [3]
Freud's first attempt to explain neurotical symptoms was presented in Studies on Hysteria (1895). Co-authored with his mentor Josef Breuer, this is generally seen as the birth of psychoanalysis. [40] The work based on Freud's and Breuer's partly joint treatment of Bertha Pappenheim, referred to in the case studies by the pseudonym Anna O..
Jean Laplanche (French:; 21 June 1924 – 6 May 2012) was a French author, psychoanalyst and winemaker.Laplanche is best known for his work on psychosexual development and Sigmund Freud's seduction theory, and wrote more than a dozen books on psychoanalytic theory.
Sigmund Freud (/ f r ɔɪ d / FROYD; [2] German: [ˈziːkmʊnt ˈfrɔʏt]; born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies seen as originating from conflicts in the psyche, through dialogue between patient and psychoanalyst, [3] and the distinctive theory of ...
The Assault on Truth: Freud's Suppression of the Seduction Theory is a book by the former psychoanalyst Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, in which the author argues that Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, deliberately suppressed his early hypothesis, known as the seduction theory, that hysteria is caused by sexual abuse during infancy, because he refused to believe that children are the ...
According to Frank Cioffi, a criticism of the scientific validity of the psychoanalytical theory of human psychosexual development is that Freud was personally fixated upon human sexuality. [20] Freud stated that his patients commonly had memories and fantasies of childhood seduction.
The general concept was considered by Sigmund Freud in The Interpretation of Dreams (1899), although the term itself was introduced in his paper A Special Type of Choice of Object made by Men (1910). [2] [3] Freud's ideas of castration anxiety and penis envy refer to the differences of the sexes in their experience of the Oedipus complex. [4]