seduction theory

noun

Etymology

Calque of German Verführungstheorie

  1. calqued from Verführungstheorie

Definitions

  1. 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.

The neighborhood

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