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Freud did not abandon the theory of seduction. Rather, it was swept to the side by the scandal that broke out when he became involved with his first patient, Emma Eckstein. Freud employs some intellectual acrobatics to replace the seducer, whose solitude prevents him from recognizing himself, with the universal concept of “drive.” This concept of an internal seducer became the substitute for the unfindable seducer. The author proposes replacing it with ""libido” and here begins to rewrite the “incipit” from Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality.