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- The philosopher Roger Scruton argued in Sexual Desire (1986) that Freud's theory of repression disproves the claim, made by Karl Popper and Ernest Nagel, that Freudian theory implies no testable observation and therefore does not have genuine predictive power, since the theory has "strong empirical content" and implies testable consequences.
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The philosopher Roger Scruton argued in Sexual Desire (1986) that Freud's theory of repression disproves the claim, made by Karl Popper and Ernest Nagel, that Freudian theory implies no testable observation and therefore does not have genuine predictive power, since the theory has "strong empirical content" and implies testable consequences.
- 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
Oct 26, 2023 · Repression is one of the core concepts in psychoanalysis, and according to Eagle (Citation 2018, pp. 219–220), Freud (Citation 1926) considered repression to be a negative feedback system: (1) a forbidden mental impulse threatens to reach consciousness; (2) this elicits a signal of anxiety; (3) the signal of anxiety triggers opposing forces ...
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...
- Salman Akhtar
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 ...
- Susan Sugarman
- 2016
In this chapter, the author reviews Sigmund Freud’s foundational theory of repression, exploring its clinical relevance.
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This book proposes that Freud's theory of repression needs to be understood in a new light, which allows Freudian repression to be evaluated afresh and gives a modern appreciation for the vitality of Freud's thinking.
