It was very unusual in Freud's time even to acknowledge that women had sexual desire, much less to say that the repression of their sexual desire could make them hysterical. Freud demanded ...

Freud let his patients speak freely in hopes of unlocking their previously repressed thoughts, a process which led him to conclude that stifled sexual feelings were at the root of these illnesses.

Freud, A. (1936). The Ego and the Mechanisms ... In this it resembles most closely the process of repression. Other defensive proc­esses, such as displacement, reversal or turning round upon ...

As Sarah Boxer writes in her essay in “On the Couch,” “Without Freud: No Freudian slips. No Oedipus complex. No latent ...