Freud and Neurosis in the United States

Frida Ghitis: Freud deduces there are all these hysterical or no neurotic patients coming to me the source of their neurosis seems to be sexually related meaning that there's some type of as a child and then you can experience some type of traumatic event. She says in fact even if there are cases where actual historical seductions by the father caretaker or even a stranger leads to neurosis the overwhelming majority of the cases he's dealing with he sees that there's a misremembering If you will. Ghitis: Laplanche feeds upon this to say, wait a minute, Freud was onto something with seduction, except that he took it historically but didn't go far enough