The author James Joyce shared Freud’s opinion that fathers were too demonstrative and seduced their daughters. Joyce wrote about this point in his novel, Finnegans Wake. (Freud, p.xi) Freud had told the Viennese Society for Psychiatry and Neurology his theory, but his contemporary, Richard von Krafft-Ebing rejected this. The disbeliever said Freud’s theory sounded like a scientific fairy tale.
We, in the 20th and 21 century, have encountered or read of clinical cases where fathers did sexually abuse their daughters, but not all dads have done that.
Reference
Freud, S. (2006). The Psychology of Love. Penguin Classics: Great Britain.
