# 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 (along with active sexual experience up to age 8 for the latter)

**Wikidata**: [Q1343085](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1343085)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freud's_seduction_theory)  
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## References

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