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The concept of [[repression]] ([[French]]: ''[[{{Top}}refoulement]]'') is one of the most basic [[concepts]] in [[psychoanalytic theory]].{{Bottom}}

=====Sigmund Freud=====[[Freud]] was first led to hypothesise hypothesize the process of [[repression]] through his investigation into the amnesia of [[hysteria|hysterical]] [[patient]]s.

=====Primary and Secondary=====He later distinguished between [[primal repression]] (a '"[[myth]]ical' " [[forgetting]] of something that was never [[conscious]] to begin with, an originary '"psychical act' " by which the [[unconscious]] is first constituted) and [[secondary repression]] (concrete acts of [[repression]] whereby some idea or perception that was once [[conscious]] is expelled from the [[conscious]]).

For [[Lacan]], [[repression]] is the fundamental operation which distinguishes [[neurosis]] from the other [[clinical structure]]s. Whereas [[psychotic]]s [[foreclose]], and [[pervert]]s [[disavow]], only [[neurotic]]s [[repress]].

This latter view seems to correspond more closely to At one point [[Lacan]] speaks of the [[signified]] as the [[object]] of [[Freudrepression]]'s ,<ref>{{E}}} p.55</ref> but he soon abandons this view and argues instead that what it is repressed always a [[signifier]] that is not the '[[affectrepressed]]' (which can only be displaced or transformed) but the 'ideational representative' of the , never a [[drivesignified]].<ref>{{S11}} p. 218</ref>

----=====Primary=====[[Primal repression]] (Ger. ''Urverdr‰ngung'') is the [[alienation]] of [[desire]] when [[need]] is articulated in [[demand]].<ref>{{E}} p. 286</ref> It is also the [[unconscious]] [[signifying chain]].<ref>{{E}} p. 314</ref>

"From the moment he speaks, from that precise moment and not before, I understand that there is repression."<ref>{{S20}} p.53</ref> [[Lacan]] does not see [[primary repression]] as a specific psychical [[act]], localisable in [[time]], but as a structural feature of [[language]] itself - namely, its necessary incompleteness, the [[impossibility]] of ever saying "the truth about truth."<ref>{{Ec}} p.868</ref>