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The term [[sexual ]] [[trauma ]] refers to a sexual [[situation ]] that causes intense [[fear ]] because the [[subject]], a [[child]], is exposed to it in a [[state ]] of [[passivity ]] and unpreparedness.Classical [[psychiatry ]] was already interested in traumas when [[Freud ]] was developing his [[ideas]]. He borrowed the term, but replaced the [[psychiatric ]] [[notion ]] of a shock from a serious accident causing a fear of [[death ]] with that of the impact of sexual aggressions against [[children]]. In a [[letter ]] of October 15, 1895, he wrote to Wilhelm [[Fliess]]: "Have I revealed the great [[clinical]]...