Freud had used Lindner's observation that sensual sucking seems to absorb the attention completely and leads to either sleep or an orgasm-like response to develop his theory of infantile sexuality.
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Sigmund Freud had used Lindner's observation that sensual sucking seems to absorb the attention completely and leads to either sleep or an orgasm-like response to develop his theory of infantile sexuality.
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Sigmund Freud, of course, famously used the Oedipus myth to elucidate his theory of infantile sexuality, and here Bauchau, the psychoanalyst, seems to attempt his own erotic recasting of the same tale.
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Criticizing Freud's theory of infantile sexuality, Macmillan notes that psychoanalyst Irving Bieber arranged a partial translation of into English of a paper by the Hungarian pediatrician S . Lindner, who had reported a systematic study of sucking.
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This transition from the theory of infantile sexual trauma as a general explanation of how all neuroses originate to one that presupposes an autonomous infantile sexuality provided the basis for Freud's subsequent formulation of the theory of the Oedipus complex.
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Children were not yet considered sexual beings, which is why Lewis Carroll could get away with taking nude shots of little girls, at least for a while, and why Freud would later encounter such resistance to his theories of infantile sexuality.
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There were some serious negative consequences of this shift . The most obvious negative consequence was that a limited interpretation of Freud's theory of infantile sexuality would cause some therapists and others to deny reported sexual abuse as fantasy; a situation that has given rise to much criticism ( e . g . " The Freudian Coverup " by social worker Florence Rush ).