Freud's seduction theory
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
Freud's seduction theory 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. According to the theory, a repressed memory of child sexual abuse in early childhood or a molestation experience was the essential precondition for hysterical or obsessional symptoms, with the addition of an a... Wikipedia