Freud believed that a person's basic character is formed by age 5

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14. I agree with you. Jung's belief that we evolve over the whole lifetime

by the way, has anyone read about freud's initial theories about the oedipus complex? It seems freud spent time in france making observations in the cemetaries, of children who were killed. His initial findings found that there were many children who had been sexually assaulted. When he wrote his findings, his friend-a physician, influenced him not to print the findings because he would be castigated by the psychiatry community. He wound up coming up with the oedipus, electra complex. How children have sexual feelings for their parent; instead of how adults are preying on the innocent. In later years, the physician's son had approached freud and informed him his first thoughts were correct, since he had been sexually assaulted by his father, freud's friend who convinced him not to expose his initial findings.

He performed experiments, with the help of his friend, in sexual suppression-like cauterizing the membranes in the nose and other physical experiments. And, minimizing tales from patients of childhood sexual assault. If you think about it, telling a patient who had been sexually raped, that it was really a figment of their imagination, because they had a subconscious lust for his/her parent, probably caused even more damage to the patient.