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In the <blockquote>It is a kind of [[negative]] [[magic]] which by means of a motor [[symbolism]] would "Rat Manblow away," as it were, not the consequences of an [[event]] (1909dan impression, an [[experience]]), Freud describes compulsive acts but the event itself .... The effort at "undoing" finds its [[reflection]] in the normal sphere in the resolve to treat an occurrence as unfolding ''non arrivé''; but in two momentsthis [[case]] one does not take up arms against it, during which one is simply not concerned [[about]] either the occurrence or its consequences; whereas in [[neurosis]] the first attempt is undone by the second. According made to him in obsessional thought "abrogate the patient's consciousness naturally misunderstands them [the compulsive acts[past]] and puts forward a set of secondary motives itself, to account for them—rationalizes them, in short" (p[[repress]] it by motor means. 192). In reality there is an opposition between love and hate. In Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety (1926d), he defines more specifically An effort of the same sort may provide the "magical" nature explanation of this defense that "no longer the [[hascompulsion]] any resemblance to [[repetition]] so frequently [[present]] in neurosis, a ''repetition'' in the process carrying out of 'repression"' (pwhich various mutually contradictory purposes are commingled ... 164). Thus the obsessive ceremony strives not only to prevent the appearance of an event but The striving to "undo it, which " a [[traumatic]] experience is irrational and magical and most likely arises from an animist attitude toward often revealed as a motive force of the environment. Anna Freud (1936) included undoing first rank in her repertory the creating of ego defenses[[symptoms]].<ref>{{PoA}} Ch.6</ref></blockquote>

{{Freudian Dictionary}}  =Below=    The [[mechanism]] of undoing is characteristic of [[obsessional]] neurosis, along with [[isolation]]. It involves a [[process]] of "negative magic" that, according to [[Freud]], tends to undo what has been done. When an [[action]] is undone by a second action, it is as if neither had occurred, whereas in [[reality]] both have taken [[place]]. In a [[letter]] to [[Fliess]] written on December 22, 1897, Freud already foresees what he defines at that [[time]] as the ambiguity or imprecise [[meaning]] characteristic of [[obsessional neurosis]]. He would later describe this as an action that occurs in a second [[moment]], and which seeks to undo an action that precedes it. "Obsessional [[ideas]] are often clothed in a remarkable [[verbal]] vagueness in [[order]] to permit of this multiple employment" (1950a, p. 273). In the "[[Rat Man]]" (1909d), Freud describes compulsive [[acts]] as unfolding in two moments, during which the first is undone by the second. According to him in obsessional [[thought]] "the [[patient]]'s [[consciousness]] [[naturally]] misunderstands [[them]] [the compulsive acts] and puts forward a set of secondary motives to account for them—rationalizes them, in short" (p. 192). In reality there is an opposition between [[love]] and [[hate]]. In Inhibitions, Symptoms and [[Anxiety]] (1926d), he defines more specifically the "magical" [[nature]] of this [[defense]] that "no longer [has] any resemblance to the process of '[[repression]]"' (p. 164). Thus the obsessive ceremony strives not only to prevent the [[appearance]] of an event but to undo it, which is [[irrational]] and magical and most likely arises from an animist attitude toward the [[environment]]. [[Anna Freud]] (1936) included undoing in her repertory of ego defenses. The [[concept ]] of undoing has today acquired a certain [[psychological ]] connotation. It is often confused with the concept of ambivalent [[behavior ]] or attitude. It is probably also necessary to distinguish it, because of the "magical" [[character ]] of the defense, from the series of mechanisms discovered by Freud—repression, [[foreclosure]], [[negation ]] (or denegation), [[disavowal ]] (or [[denial]])—a series that is commonly referred to today as the [[work ]] of negativization.

See also: Anxiety; [[Defense mechanisms]]; Inhibitions, Symptoms, and Anxiety; Obsessional neurosis; [[Rite ]] and [[ritual]]; Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense, The.[[Bibliography]]

* Freud, Anna. (1909d). [[Notes ]] upon a case of obsessional neurosis. SE, 10: 155-249. * ——. (1936). The Ego and the Mechanisms of [[Defence]]. [[London]]: Hogarth Press; New York: International Universities Press, 1966. * ——. (1950a [1887-1902]). Extracts from the Fliess papers. SE, 1: 173-280.