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Freud's seduction theory

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hypothesis, posited and soon abandoned in the 1890s by Freud, that a repressed memory of early childhood sexual abuse is the essential precondition for hysteria or obsessional neurosis (along with active sexual experience up to age 8 for the latter)

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time of discovery or invention
1890-00-00
discoverer or inventor
Sigmund Freud
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