According to some scholars,Freud thought that stories of childhood sexual abuse reported by his adult female patients reflected their

A) erogenous zones.
B) inferiority complexes.
C) childhood sexual wishes.
D) social standing.

Freud believed that memories of childhood sexual abuse reported by his adult female patients were actually repressed childhood sexual wishes or fantasies. He came to this conclusion based on his theory of psychosexual development, which posits that children pass through stages where their pleasure centers around different erogenous zones, and that developmental issues or traumas during these stages can lead to fixation or regression. Freud theorized that these repressed desires emerged in the form of unconscious fantasies or slips of the tongue during therapy sessions, and that his patients were using the story of childhood abuse as a cover for these desires.