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The return of the repressed is the process whereby repressed elements, preserved in the unconscious, tend to reappear, in consciousness or in behavior, in the shape of secondary and more or less unrecognizable "derivatives of the unconscious." Parapraxes, bungled or symptomatic actions, are examples of such derivatives.
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The repressed is constituted by the operation of repression, which rejects and maintains in the unconscious representations deemed incompatible with the ego.
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Beginning with ''The Interpretation of Dreams'' (1900a), Freud always emphasized the "indestructible" nature of unconscious material, as likewise the irreducible character of memory traces. If we have no memories of...
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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.
 
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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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The ''resolution'' or ''dissolution'' of the transference means the end-point of a transference neurosis and the full recognition by the analysand that his or her relationship to the psychoanalyst is based primarily on the repetition of earlier relationships, namely those of childhood.
 
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Freud's first explicit mention of the resolution of the transference was in "Recommendations to Physicians Practising Psycho-Analysis," where he described it as "one of the main tasks of the treatment" (1912e, p. 118). The introduction of this idea,...
 
  
  

Revision as of 06:53, 18 May 2006

The return of the repressed is the process whereby repressed elements, preserved in the unconscious, tend to reappear, in consciousness or in behavior, in the shape of secondary and more or less unrecognizable "derivatives of the unconscious." Parapraxes, bungled or symptomatic actions, are examples of such derivatives. Beginning with The Interpretation of Dreams (1900a), Freud always emphasized the "indestructible" nature of unconscious material, as likewise the irreducible character of memory traces. If we have no memories of...

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