seduction theory
Sigmund Freud's hypothesis, in the mid-1890s, that a repressed memory of an early…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.
Meaning
1 senses(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.
Origin
Calque of German VerführungstheorieCalque of German Verführungstheorie
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