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The theory of [[repression]] is the key to the psychoanalytic understanding of [[neurosis]] and especially [[hysteria]].
[[Lacan]] argues that the triggering of a [[psychosis]] is governed by the different and specific process of [[forclosureforeclosure]].
==Primal Repression==
The expression '[[primal repression]]' is used by [[Freud]] to refer to a hypothetical process in which the [[unconscious]] is constituted through the f[[ormationformation]] and [[repression]] of [[unconscious]] ideas and [[representation]]s.
The result is the lating [[fixation]] of the [[drive]] to one particular [[representation]].
