Innocence Lost: A Freudian Essay on Childhood Sexual Abuse

This work integrates Sigmund Freud’s early neurological model—from his Project for a Scientific Psychology—with modern neuroscience to theorize the mechanisms by which childhood sexual abuse (CSA) contributes to neuropsychiatric disorders. It posits that CSA induces pathological synaptic and energetic alterations in the developing brain, leading to repression failure, libidinal dysregulation, and vulnerabilities to conditions including hysteria, obsession, hypersexuality, and temporal lobe epilepsy. The author further examines the role of neurotoxic substances (caffeine, ethanol, THC) in lowering seizure thresholds and explores Freudian regression as a framework for understanding subsequent paraphilias.

Note: "Death" in the context of this work equates to forced severe psychological extinction or counter-conditioning of regressive sexual ideas and behaviors.

Abstract by DeepSeek, contents produced, edited, and formulated by Dustin Sprenger.

Original DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17850507