The seductions of history: Sexual trauma in Freud's theory and historiography

International Journal of Psycho-Analysis

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 857-869

  Makari, George J ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

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ARTICLE; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; INJURY; LIBIDO; PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY; SEXOLOGY;

FAMOUS PERSONS; HISTORIOGRAPHY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; LIBIDO; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY; SEX OFFENSES;

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