Might have been mentioned before, but I thought I'd post some stuff I found.
In the past few months of this ongoing group research into child trafficking, many people have mentioned the name Clement Freud. Specifically people have spoken on his exposure as a known pedophile to the public eye, and for his involvement in the Madeline McCann case. There have been multiple reputable articles written on the subject, the one below is written by the telegraph
Telegraph article on Clement Freud:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/14/sir-clement-freud-exposed-as-a-paedophile-as-police-urged-to-pro/
Now based on Clements' grandfather Sigmund Freud's work on early sexual development I figured I would look into the history of his work
this article in particular led me on to an aspect of Freud's legacy I had never heard before, though seems to be quite public
Article By Simon Partridge | June 17, 2016, : http://heatst.com/world/clement-freud-abuse-doesnt-surprise-me-it-ran-in-the-family/
The article in part explains, and very briefly reviews the idea that Freud himself was a victim of early childhood abuse, and uses the series of letters written by Freud to a confidant Wilhelm Fliess as supporting evidence.
A couple searches after that and I found "The Freudian Coverup" as it seems to be named
TAKEN FROM WIKIPEDIA PAGE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Freudian_Coverup
The Freudian Cover-up, is a theory first popularized by social worker Florence Rush in the 1970s, which asserts that Sigmund Freud intentionally ignored evidence that his patients were victims of sexual abuse. The theory argues that in developing his theory of infant sexuality, he misinterpreted his patients' claim of sexual abuse as symptoms of repressed incestuous desire. Therefore, Freud claimed that children who reported sexual abuse by adults had either imagined or fantasized the experience.
(EDIT- I might also add, that FLORENCE RUSH's wikipedia page is also particularly insightful as to the nature of psychiatry and sexual abuse of children. Her page is small and well worth reading)
Now while this was popular in the 1970s, a full decade later a book, "The Assault on Truth" was released by author, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson who was at one point director of the Sigmund Freud archives and acquaintance of Freud's daughter Ana Freud.
You can find all of this info on his wikipedia page
here is also a chapter out of book on critical thinking in film, involving Jefferey Massons story.
(while I do not necessarily agree with the chapters interpretation regarding the film I thought I would include it as it is well written and connects a film to a conspiracy theory which I think some people could enjoy, as well as being accurate in its tellings of events)
http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057%2F9780230112094_9
I realize this might be general information to many, but I should hope at least this reaches some people who had never heard of it.
Please excuse me if this is redundant at this point, I thought I would write this up as it seems people seem to be interested in "possible" old coverups
EDIT-NOT FINISHED
The Film Lolita has been discussed in the past here on VOAT as well,
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sore_ass_losers ago
Once when I was researching MPD (multiple personality disorder) I found the following quote in a mainstream academic source.
(quote) MPD is hardly a new diagnosis. What is new (1996) is the unprecedented rate at which this disorder is now being diagnosed. Studied by nineteenth century psychiatrists, MPD faded into professional obscurity from the 1920s until the early 1980s. This was the period when the theories of Sigmund Freud had a monopolistic hold on clinical thought. Freud believed that incest memories were Oedipal fantasies that the patient confused for reality. The Oedipal fantasy theory diverted clinical attention from trauma-induced dissociative disorders until the early 1980s when this theory crumbled under the weight of empirical evidence that child molestation and incest is more prevalent than previously believed. The collapse of the fantasy theory reawakened interest in MPD and since then the number of diagnoses has risen rapidly. (end quote)
http://digitalcommons.pepperdine.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1513&context=plr (Ample footnotes in original)
sore_ass_losers ago
I originally posted the above on "Madeleine McCann , Clarence Mitchell, Matthew Freud, Sir Clement Freud" https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/1521011
That thread also had the following comment with some very interesting leads on SF (by a @fifibrindacier):
(quote)Just read "The Assault on truth : Freud's suppression of seduction theory". This is a massive investigation that Jeffrey Masson did, while he was working at Freud archives in London. The oedipus complex theory is totally made to serve pedophiles. Alice Miller, great defendor of children, talked also about that.(end quote)
sore_ass_losers ago
Here's a quote from Jeffrey Masson's (cited above) website http://jeffreymasson.com/books/the-assault-on-truth.html . (I also found an article by Masson in The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1984/02/freud-and-the-seduction-theory/376313/ .)
(quote)In 1895, Sigmund Freud formulated what was perhaps his most profound theory: that emotional disturbances in adults stem from actual early traumatic experiences, the knowledge of which has been repressed. But Freud eventually renounced this theory in favor of a new view, that his women patients had "fantasized" their early memories of rape and seduction - a view on which the whole budding science of psychoanalysis would be based.
Masson makes available previously unpublished letters from Freud's closest friend, Wilhelm Fliess, which reveal that Freud had grave doubts about abandoning the "seduction theory." Masson discovered that not only had Freud read the contemporary literature documenting the high incidence of sexual abuse of children, he had in all likelihood witnessed autopsies of children who had been raped and murdered. That Freud abandoned his seduction theory, Masson argues, was a failure of courage rather than a clinical or theoretical insight.
As a result, most psychiatrists and psychoanalysts have in effect been reluctant to trust the memories of their patients, women in particular, about the traumas they experienced in childhood. Like Freud, they see such traumas as fantasy rather than reality. This cover-up of the truth, Masson asserts, has poisoned the entire profession.(end quote)
sore_ass_losers ago
Just read Masson's lengthy but interesting Atlantic article, cited above.
Towards the end of his abandoning "seduction theory" [child abuse as a cause of neurosis] Freud wrote: "Imagine, I obtained a scene [recovered memory from a client] about the circumcision of a girl. The cutting off of a piece of the labia minora (which is still shorter today), sucking up the blood, following which the child was given a piece of the skin to eat. ... I dream, therefore, of a primeval devil religion whose rites are carried on secretly, and I understand the harsh therapy of the witches' judges ."
Masson adds: "Freud was implying here that the Sabbats (part of a ritualized religion in which sexual perversions were acted out) were real events. He seems to have been saying: The torture and the murder of the witches are understandable, for the judges were attempting to curtail a heinous cult."
As part of the reason for abandoning "seduction theory" Freud wrote: "Then the surprise that, in all cases, the father, not excluding my own, had to be accused of being perverse—the realization of the unexpected frequency of hysteria, with precisely the same conditions prevailing in each, whereas surely such widespread perversions against children are not very probable." (Here is the proof that Freud had memories of sexual abuse by his own father.)
So he eventually started to disbelief all of the recovered memories of abuse, also the establishment was very much against this theory. Also Masson discusses how Freud was complicit in a botched, unnecessary nose operation on a client (probably the one mentioned above) and his change in theory better covered up his lack of success.
Interesting read. I've read accounts how Freud was just a satanic, evil person who conspired against humanity, this paints a more complicated picture.