March 4th, 1997 - Freud withdrew his "seduction theory" of cl1ild sexual abuse, based on his female patients' revelations of sexual assault by their fathers, when his findings were contested by a colleague (himself an abuser of his young son). Freud replaced this theory with an oedipal theory tailored to daughters. Girls ("hysterics") alleging sexual abuse by their fathers actually wane to marry them, replacing their mothers. They fantasised the sex and even had hysterical pregnancies. On the politics, media treatment and psychoanalysis of child abuse at the close of the nineteenth century, see L. Wolff, Postcards from the End of the World: Child Abuse in Freud's Vienna (New York: Athene um, 1988).
