[pacman83]

In a book /Against Therapy/, Jeffrey Masson, Freud scholar, explains how Freud deluded himself into disbelieving accounts that he originally had believed. The thought of them being true simply became unbearable to him.

Freud used to talk about wish-fulfillment fantasies. Apparently he fell to his own wish-fulfillment fantasy. He wished to live in a world in which child sexual abuse was not a thing.