With reference to Amy Wilson�s article cited in my previous message (above), Wison writes on Loftus�s studies into supposed repressed memories: �Freud�s entire psychological construct [was] based on a few female patients.� This oft-repeated notion is actually far from the truth. The remarkable fact is that although the great majority of Freud�s early patients were women, his fundamental theories of psychosexual development were based on male infants. It was not until the 1920s, some thirty years after he started his psychoanalytic work, that he worked out his theories of female psychosexual development. (Prior to that he had simply stated that the psychosexual sexual development of infant girls was analogous to that of male infants.) But don�t take my word for it. Here is Freud in a 1935 footnote to *An Autobiographical Study*:
�The information about infantile sexuality was obtained from the study of men and the theory deduced from it was concerned with male children� (1925, Standard Edition vol. 20, p.36, n1). So how come that although most of Freud�s early patients were women, his theory of psychosexual development was male-based? I have my own explanation for this, but I�d be interested to hear what other TIPSters think. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.human-nature.com/esterson/index.html www.butterfliesandwheels.com/articleprint.php?num=10 --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
