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Many forbidden memories, ideas, and feelings were related to
- Sex
- Sexuality
- Early childhood experiences
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Infantile seduction theory
- "The root of all neurosis is the premature introduction of sexuality into the experience of the child."
- Rejected by peers
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Eventually didn't fit the data
- Patients without explicit memories of molestation
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Self-analysis
- Never seduced
- Wished to be seduced
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Inherently controversial
- Child is seduced
- Child wishes to be seduced
- Theory of Instinctual Drive
- Oedipus Complex