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Repression is a defense mechanism in which people push difficult or unacceptable thoughts out of conscious awareness. Repressed memories were a cornerstone of Freud ’s psychoanalytic framework ...
- Remembering Something That Never Happened
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- How Does The Law Treat Repressed Memories
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- Remembering Something That Never Happened
- 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
Repression is a key concept of psychoanalysis, where it is understood as a defense mechanism that "ensures that what is unacceptable to the conscious mind, and would if recalled arouse anxiety, is prevented from entering into it." [1] According to psychoanalytic theory, repression plays a major role in many mental illnesses, and in the psyche ...
Freud wrote about it, also identifying the roots of the mechanism of repression: “the children have entered upon a new phase of development in which they are compelled to recapitulate from the history of mankind the repression of an incestuous object-choice, just as at an earlier stage they were obliged to affect an object-choice of that very sort” (Freud, 1919, p. 108).
Abstract. Over a century ago, Freud proposed that memories can be forgotten by pushing them into the unconscious, a process called repression. The existence of repression has remained controversial for more than a century, in part because of its strong coupling with trauma and the ethical and practical difficulties of studying this process in ...
- Michael C. Anderson
- 2006
This chapter tracks Freud's principal paper on repression (1915b), addressing, in turn, the conceptual puzzle raised by repression, the course of repression, and its psychological cost. The paper seeds Freud's later paper on negation, which provocatively illustrates a conscious equivalent of repression and offers an illuminating reconceptualization of the pleasure and reality principles.
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Hogarth, London, pp 141-158 1915a) as its starting point, this paper elucidates the complex, nuanced, and pervasive nature of this defense. It deconstructs Freud's unitary concept of repression into four implicit binaries and updates his proposals in the light of contemporary psychoanalytic theory. The paper offers clear guidelines for clinical ...
