Editing Psychoanalysis (section)

====The secrecy mechanism====
In the mid-1890s, he was still upholding his hypothesis of sexual abuse. In this context, he reported on fantasies of several patients, which on the one hand would point to memories of scenes of [[infantile masturbation]] stored in the unconscious, while the more conscious parts on the other hand would aim to make these morally forbidden acts of childish pleasure unrecognisable, to cover up them. The interesting point for Freud here was not so much the secretiveness itself (a well-known behaviour of [[Victorian era]]), but the following twofold realisation: That children – at that time considered as ''innocent'' little angels – initiate pleasurable actions of their own accord (have ‘drives’ at all, as later assigned to the ‘id’); and the presumably by aducation initiated emergence of a [[Psychopathology|psychopathological]] mechanism, whose ability consists in being able to hide impulses of this kind from one's own consciousness.<ref name="Freud 1906" /> Short after, he assumed that the same findings would have some evidence for a kind of [[oedipus complex|Oedipal]] desires.