Freud "invented" Oedipus' complex because most of his patients were describing not their fantasms but their actual sexual abuse at the hands of their father...

Freud "invented" Oedipus' complex because most of his patients were describing not their fantasms but their actual sexual abuse at the hands of their father... https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/1271553 https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/1271553 A story has to be written on how prevalent child sexual abuse was in Europe at the turn of the XXth century. Was it as prevalent before? Did it come after the trauma of WWI? Was it a "cultural" movement brought by the stiff values of bourgeoisie? Was it just mechanically spreading - abused children growing up to become abusive parents? There seems to be an anomaly that warrants some research.