If you're like me, you probably don't remember anything from your life before the age of three. This phenomenon, first dubbed by Sigmund Freud as "infantile amnesia," occurs in many different species, yet why it happens remains a mystery. Freud (being Freud) pinned the culprit on sex: those early memories are actively repressed because of their highly charged psychosexual context. This idea is now "actively repressed" by modern scientists, who instead point to quirks in the developing...
If you're like me, you probably don't remember anything from your life before the age of three. This phenomenon, first dubbed by Sigmund Freud as "infantile amnesia," occurs in many different species, yet why it happens remains a mystery. Freud (being Freud) pinned the culprit on sex: those early memories are actively repressed because of their highly charged psychosexual context. This idea is now "actively repressed" by modern scientists, who instead point to quirks in the developing...
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