Freud's Traumatic Memory: Reclaiming Seduction Theory and Revisiting Oedipus

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The Asymmetry of Taboo and the Unbearable Idea VII CONTENTS Acknowledgments Introduction: The Asymmetry of Taboo and the Unbearable Idea 1 1 • Freud’s Seduction 11 2 • Freud and French Forensic Medicine 38 3 • Analyzing Freud’s Arguments in “The Aetiology of Hysteria” 62 4 • Reconsidering Freud’s Recanting: Scientific and Therapeutic Failures 81 5 • Freud Finds Oedipus 113 Rape of a Citizen Boy 131 7 • Seducing the Scapegoat: Greek Mythology and Father-Daughter Incest 156 8 • Freud as Twentieth Century Patient 178 Notes 186 Bibliography 202 Index 217 i 6 • Seducing Power: Laius and the Crisis over the v i i ...