seduction theory
English
Etymology
German Verführungstheorie
Noun
seduction theory (uncountable)
- Sigmund Freud's hypothesis, in the mid-1890s, that a repressed memory of an early childhood sexual abuse experience was the essential precondition for hysterical or obsessional symptoms.
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