some mutual linked this piece a few weeks ago and I just read it now. writer argues that freud initially knew that the neuroses he was describing were actually a result of childhood sexual abuse by fathers but eventually projected it onto all children.
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one of freud's early disciples repeating the original theory (which was called seduction theory) and suffering for it.
he also argues that freud's own father jacob sexually abused his siblings and perhaps even sigmund himself.
he thinks the motivations of concealing all this were partly to avoid collective ethnic embarrassment (all his initial disciples with whom his theory resonated were co-ethnics & in a way admitting the prevalence of sexual abuse). also bio details of wilhelm reich.
also freud's grandson & british politician clement freud
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