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In his 1905 essay on Infantile Sexuality, Freud notes that writers interested in the characteristics and reactions of the adult mind, "have devoted much more attention to the primaeval period which is comprised in the life of the individual's ancestors --have, that is, ascribed much more influence to heredity --than to the other primaeval period, which falls within the lifetime of the individual himself --that is, to childhood" (173). By cutting through the amnesia which "turns everyone's childhood into something like a prehistoric epoch,"
Sally Shuttleworth (Thu,) studied this question.