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=Freudian Dictionary=
<blockquote>Symptoms result from the injuring of the instinctual impulse through repression.<ref>{{PoA}} Ch. 2</ref></blockquote>
<blockquote>Symptoms are supposed to be an indication of and substitute for an unachieved instinctual gratification; they are, that is, a result of a process of repression.<ref>{{PoA}} Ch. 2</ref></blockquote>
<blockquote>Symptom formation thus has the actual result of putting an end to the danger situation.<ref>{{PoA}} Ch. 9</ref></blockquote>
<blockquote>All phenomena of symptom-formation can be fairly described as "the return of the repressed," The disitnctive character of them, however, lies in the extensive distortion the returning elements have undergone, compared with their original form.<ref>{{M&M}} Part III, Section II</ref></blockquote>
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Symptom-formation is the process leading to the production of a symptom—the production, that is to say, of a "sign" or "indication" of a functional disturbance.
