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Feb 27, 2024 · Literary Theory: How Repression is Used: Psychoanalytic Criticism * Analyzes texts for signs of unconscious desires and conflicts of characters, authors, and even implied readers. * Explores how symbolism, dreams, and narrative patterns might reveal repressed elements.
Apr 13, 2016 · The first is what Althusser calls the RSAs, or Repressive State Apparatuses, that can enforce behavior directly, such as the police and the criminal justice system. Through these ‘apparatuses’ the state has the power to force you physically to behave.
Jul 25, 2007 · Repression is associated in the literature with terms such as non-expression, emotional control, rationality, anti-emotionality, defensiveness and restraint. Whether these terms are synonymous with repression, indicate a variation, or are essentially different from repression is uncertain.
- Bert Garssen
- 10.1007/s10865-007-9122-7
- 2007
- J Behav Med. 2007 Dec; 30(6): 471-481.
Repression is the threat to subdue or act of subduing someone by institutional or physical force. Political violence is a particular form of repression involving the threat to use or actual use of physical force to achieve political goals.
- Primal Repression vs Repression Proper
- ‘Pushed Down ’ vs. ‘Pulled Under’
- Banishment vs Return
- Successful vs Failed
Freud distinguished ‘primal repression’ from ‘repression proper’ on three grounds. The first distinction was that primal repression played a central role in establishing fixation whereas repression proper affected “mental derivatives of the repressed representative or such trains of thought as, originating elsewhere, had come into associative conne...
The second binary in Freud’s concept of repression pertains to the repressed contents coming to reside in the unconscious because anti-cathexis or counter-cathexis has ‘pushed’ them down there or because pre-existing contents (e.g., those subject to ‘primal repression’) have ‘pulled’ them down there. The two pathways, upon closer scrutiny, seem to ...
The third dichotomy in Freud’s 1915 repression paper involves the fate of the material that undergoes repression. According to Freud, two outcomes are possible: (1) it is banished from consciousness, or (2) it returns to consciousness. Far from being simple, each of these outcomes has varied forms. Banishment that might lead to the instinct become ...
When it comes to the ‘success’ or ‘failure’ of repression, Freud has the following to say: Leaving aside the circular reasoning in the last portion of this passage, it seems that Freud is equating repression’s ‘success’ with ‘banishment, ’ and ‘failure’ with ‘return of the repressed’. If that were so, my assertion of this fourth binary in his disco...
- Salman Akhtar
- salman.akhtar@jefferson.edu
- 2020
Sep 5, 2023 · Repression is the unconscious blocking of distressing thoughts, impulses, feelings, or memories out of your conscious mind. In psychology, repression is seen as a defense mechanism that helps protect against anxiety arising from thoughts or emotions that are too painful to acknowledge.
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Jan 25, 2024 · Repression is an unconscious defense mechanism employed by the ego to keep disturbing or threatening thoughts from becoming conscious. Repression, which Anna Freud also called “motivated forgetting,” is just that: not being able to recall a threatening situation, person, or event.
