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Rare case of Freud saying something valuable *after* his pivot to full-blown ass covering for Viennese aristocrat pedos.

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wat

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Hysteria == PTSD Oedipus complex etc. == traumatic memories of sexual abuse by family, not subconscious wishy-washy shit.

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Freud and his colleagues made some extremely important discoveries, based off Charcot's earlier work. Then covered it up as it implicated Vienna's rich families (i.e. his clients) in some fairly heinous crimes. The man was a moral coward, essentially.

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Never head of that (the implication and cover-up) - where can read more?

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en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Freud Obviously it's not uncontroversial, but you can find a bunch of scholarship in the references here. I find it persuasive, personally.

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The Freudian Coverup - Wikipedia

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For history of trauma research, The Body Keeps The Score and its bibliography would be a good starter.

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wow this is pretty fucked but makes sense

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The coverup? Yeah, no different than anything going on today unfortunately...

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also the way in which it retroactively makes sense of the oedipal stuff. yeesh

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Yup...

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