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=====Unconscious=====
It denotes the process by which certain [[thought]]s or [[memory|memories]] are expelled from [[consciousness]] and confined to the '''[[unconscious]]'''.
=====Sigmund Freud=====
He later distinguished between [[repression|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 [[repression|secondary repression]] (concrete [[act]]s of [[repression]] whereby some idea or perception that was once [[conscious]] is expelled from the [[conscious]]).
=====Unconscious Formations=====
Since [[repression]] does not destroy the [[idea]]s or [[memories]] that are its target, but merely confines them to the [[unconscious]], the [[repressed]] [[material]] is always liable to return in a distorted form, in [[symptom]]s, [[dream]]s, [[slips of the tongue]], etc. (the [[return of the repressed]]).
=====Neurosis=====
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]].
=====Primary=====
[[Repression|Primal repression]] (Ger. [[German]]: ''Urverdr‰ngungUrverdrängung'') 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>
[[Primary repression]] is the [[repression]] of the first [[signifier]].
<blockquote>"From the moment he speaks, from that precise moment and not before, I understand that there is repression."<ref>{{S20}} p. 53</ref></blockquote>
[[Lacan]] does not see [[repression|primary repression]] as a specific psychical [[act]], localisable localizable in [[time]], but as a [[structure|structural feature ]] of [[language]] itself - namely, its necessary [[lack|incompleteness]], the [[impossibility]] of ever saying "the truth about truth."<ref>{{Ec}} p. 868</ref>
=====Secondary=====
[[Repression|Secondary repression]] ([[German]]" ''Verdrängung'') is a specific psychical [[act]] by which a [[signifier]] is elided from the [[signifying chain]].
[[Repression|Secondary repression]] (Ger. is [[structure]]d like a [[metaphor]], and always involves 'the [[return of the repressed]]'Verdr‰ngung'') is a specific psychical , whereby the [[actrepressed]] by which a [[signifier]] is elided from reappears under the guise of the various [[formation]]s of the [[signifying chainunconscious]] (i.e. [[symptom]]s, [[dream]]s, [[parapraxis|parapraxes]], [[joke]]s, etc.).
In [[Secondary repression]] is [[structure]]d like a [[metaphor]], and always involves 'the [[return of the repressed]]', whereby the [[repressed]] [[signifier]] reappears under the guise of the various [[formation]]s of the [[unconscious]] (i.e. [[symptom]]s, [[dream]]s, [[parapraxisRepression|parapraxes]], [[joke]]s, etc.). In [[secondary repression]], [[repression]] and the [[return of the repressed]] "are the same thing."
==See Also==
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[[Category:Freudian psychology]]
[[Category:Neurosis]]
