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The theory of '[[repression]]' is one of the cornerstones of [[psychoanalysis]].
[[Repression]] occurs when impulses, wishes or memories, usually but not always of a sexual nature, that are bound up with the [[drive]]s, are denied access to the [[conscious]] mind by the [[ego]] because it regards them as a threat to its integrity or because they offend the ethical standards imposed upon it by the [[super-ego]].
Such impulses and wishes are forced back into the [[unconscious]] but almost inevitably find other means of expression by using the mechanisms of [[condensation]] and [[displacement]].
The resultant conflict between the respective [[demand]]s of the [[ego]] and the [[unconscious]] results in the formation of [[symptom]]s, which are a fomr of substitute sexual [[satisfaction]] or [[wish-fulfilment]].
[[Repression]] is not a single act which occurs only once, but a continuous application of pressure in the direction of the [[unconscious]].
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 [[forclosure]].
==Primal Repression==
The expression '[[primal repression]]' is used by [[Freud]] to refer to a hypothetical process in which the [[unconscious]] is constituted through the formation and [[repression]] of [[unconscious]] ideas and [[representation]]s.
The result is the lating [[fixation]] of the [[drive]] to one particular [[representation]].
'Primal' is used here in the sense in which [[Freud]] speaks of the [[primal scene]].
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