【正文】 e” . ? Although sexual seduction of young children by adults undoubtedly occurred, Freud could not believe that this happened quite so frequently as his growing practice suggested. ? If actual seduction was an invariable precursor to the development of hysterical symptoms, Freud would have been forced to conclude that his own father had been guilty of such acts, since he had noted the existence of some hysterical symptoms in his brother and sisters. ? In the course of his own selfanalysis, Freud had bee more and more impressed with the importance of sexual phantasy. ? Frued came to see that what was subjected to repression was not usually the memories of actual incidents(though these might certainly occur),but instinctual impulses manifesting themselves as phantasies. On this basis rest Freud’s theories of infantile sexuality, the Oedipus plex and also his view of dreams. Infantile Sexual Development Freud couched his stages of infantile sexual development in terms of parts of the body rather than in terms of perception,cognition, learning, or attachment. ?The “oral” stage。 ?The “phallic”stage。 ?The “genital” stage。 The Oedipus plex ? Freud came to assume that, by the time he was reached the “phallic” stage of development, at around the age of four or five, the small boy is sexually interested in his mother, wishes to gain exclusive possession of her, and therefore harbours hostile impulses towards his father. ? In put