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=Freudian Dictionary=
<blockquote>The symptom has its origin in the repressed, it is as it were the representative of the repressed in relation to the ego; the repressed is a foreign territory to the ego, an internal foreign territory, just as reality is-you must excuse the unusual expression-an external foreign territory.<ref>{{NILP}} Ch. 3</ref></blockquote>
==SYMPTOM AND CHANCE ACTION==
<blockquote>Cases [of lapses of our motor function] in which the entire action appears rather inexpedient, I call "symptomatic and chance actions."<ref>{{PEL}} Ch. 8 </ref></blockquote>
===Symptom and the Ego===
<blockquote>The process which through repression has become a symptom maintains its existence outside of the ego-organization and independent of it.<ref>{{PoA}} Ch. 3</ref></blockquote>
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==Dictionary==
Freud created psychoanalysis by giving meaning to symptoms. In his writings following <i>Studies on Hysteria</i> (1895d), he continued to investigate the symptom. At that time, psychiatry reduced the symptom to an opaque and incongruous phenomenon of psychic life. Freud focused on the salient and unusual features of the symptom to understand the dynamics of the unconscious and the development of conflicts.
