Editing Sexual revolution (section)

===Freudian school===
[[Sigmund Freud]] of [[Vienna]] believed human behavior was motivated by unconscious [[drive theory|drives]], primarily by the [[libido]] or "Sexual Energy". Freud proposed to study how these unconscious drives were [[Psychological repression|repressed]] and found expression through other cultural outlets. He called this therapy "[[psychoanalysis]]".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/psychoanalysis |title=Psychoanalysis |website=Psychology Today |access-date=March 22, 2021}}</ref>

While Freud's ideas were sometimes ignored or provoked resistance within Viennese society, his ideas soon entered the discussions and working methods of anthropologists, artists and writers all over Europe, and from the 1920s in the United States. His conception of a primary [[libido|sexual drive]] that would not be ultimately curbed by law, education or standards of decorum spelled a serious challenge to [[Victorian morality|Victorian prudishness]], and his theory of [[psychosexual development]] proposed a model for the development of sexual orientations and desires; children emerged from the [[Oedipus complex]], a sexual desire towards their parent of the opposite sex.<ref name="mind" /> The idea of children having their parents as their early sexual targets was particularly shocking to Victorian and early 20th-century society.

According to Freud's theory, in the earliest stage of a child's psychosexual development, the [[oral stage]], the mother's breast became the formative source of all later [[erotic]] sensation.<ref name="mind">{{cite web |url=https://www.simplypsychology.org/psychosexual.html |title=Freud's 5 Stages of Psychosexual Development |last=McLeod |first=Saul |date=2019 |website=SimplyPsychology |access-date=March 22, 2021}}</ref> Much of his research remains widely contested by professionals in the field, though it has spurred critical developments in the humanities.

Two [[Anarchism|anarchist]] and [[Marxism|Marxist]] proponents of Freud, [[Otto Gross]] and [[Wilhelm Reich]] (who famously coined the phrase "Sexual Revolution"), developed a sociology of sex in the 1910s through the 1930s in which the animal-like competitive reproductive behavior was seen as a legacy of ancestral human evolution reflecting in every social relation, as per the Freudian interpretation. Hence, the liberation of sexual behavior was considered by them to be a means to social revolution.