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[[Freud]] was first led to hypothesize the process of [[repression]] through his investigation into the amnesia of [[hysteria|hysterical]] [[patient]]s.
=====Primary and SecondaryRepression=====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 acts [[act]]s of [[repression]] whereby some idea or perception that was once [[conscious]] is expelled from the [[conscious]]).
=====Unconscious Formations=====
