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Repressed The repressed is constituted by the operation of repression, which rejects and maintains in the unconscious representations deemed incompatible with the ego. The repressed is not directly knowable, since it pertains wholly to the unconscious. It can be known only by its effects and by what it produces through deferred action, in particular "derivatives" of the unconscious. Sigmund Freud always insisted on the unalterability of the repressed, while at the same time recognizing that it could be rearranged or even modified, especially...

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Repressed, Derivative of the; Derivatives of the Unconscious The term repressed was used by Sigmund Freud in the context of his dynamic conception of the unconscious. Repressed elements, which remain active in the unconscious, constantly tend to reappear to consciousness in derived formations that are unrecognizable to varying degrees: These are the "derivatives" of the unconscious that also appear in the forms of symptoms, fantasies, or free associations in the course of analysis. It would be impossible to conceive of repression without the return of the repressed, and vice versa. The point...