“[W]hen Freud informed Fleiss in a letter in 1897 that he now discovered that it may not have been actual seduction that was so universally responsible for his patients’ neuroses but unconscious fantasies of having been seduced, he faced a major fork in the road….did he add unconscious fantasy to his earlier discovery of seduction trauma – or did he replace the old by the new? I believe that after a momentary period of ambiguity and wonder, Freud went on to recognize a rational coexistence – that both applied and were in fact reciprocal….”
