Louis Proyect wrote: >Yet when patients backtracked, he would simply take this to be further >proof of the reality of the abuse: they were simply trying to "repress" the >awful memory. This is the early Freud. He rejected the seduction theory. It's been revived by the recovered memory industry, with the intellectual assistance of Jeff Masson, the former Romeo who mended his ways & took up with Catherine MacKinnon. Generally, I think daily newspapers are a poor guide to philosphy and intellectual history, though they are a lot easier to read than the real thing. Doug
