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==Sigmund Freud==
[[Freud]] introduced the concept of [[regressioregression]]n in longing for a protective [[father]],<ref>Freud, 1927c: SE XXI, 22-4</ref> and described [[The Interpretation of Dreams]] in order to explain the [[visual]] nature of dreams.
Basing himself on a [[topographical]] model in which the psyche is conceived of as a series of distinct systems, [[Freud]] argued that during sleep [[progress]]ive access to motor activity is blocked, thus forcing thoughts to travel regressively through these systems towards the system of perception.<ref>Freud, 1900a: SE V, 538-55</ref>
He later added a passage to this section distinguishing between this [[topographical]] kind of [[regression]] and what he called [[temporal]] [[regression]] (when the subject reverts to previous phases of development) and [[formal]] [[regression]].<ref>Freud, 1900a: SE V, 548</ref>
==Jacques Lacan==
