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From the beginning of [[psychoanalysis]], the term unpleasure, in the ordinary [[sense ]] of a disagreeable impression, was chosen by Sigmund [[Freud ]] for its [[dynamic ]] [[dimension ]] in [[psychic ]] functioning. He noted the [[role ]] of "[[feelings ]] of unpleasure" in the [[speech ]] of his [[patients ]] and their defenses against the painful [[contents ]] of their [[thoughts]]. In "On the [[Psychical ]] [[Mechanism ]] of [[Hysterical ]] Phenomena: Preliminary [[Communication]]" (1893a) by Freud and Josef [[Breuer]], these painful affects—fearaffects—[[fear]], [[anxiety]], [[shame]], [[physical ]] pain—are enumerated and their contribution to the [[formation ]] of hysterical [[symptoms ]] is explained: The unpleasure they elicit triggers [[forgetting]], [[repression]].

In Freud's [[position ]] of the [[primitive ]] psychic [[apparatus ]] in The [[Interpretation ]] of [[Dreams ]] (1900a), an [[economic ]] perspective predominates: Unpleasure, engendered by the increase in tensions due to [[excitation]], sets in motion the functioning of the [[psychic apparatus]]. "The [[psychical apparatus ]] is intolerant of unpleasure; it has to fend it off at all costs, and if the [[perception ]] of [[reality ]] entails unpleasure, that perception—that is, the truth—must be sacrificed" (p. 237), he writes in "[[Analysis ]] Terminable and Interminable" (1937c). Unpleasure is a broader [[category ]] than anxiety, although anxiety is certainly unpleasurable. [[Other ]] [[affective ]] states such as tension, [[pain]], or grief are also unpleasurable; so, too, is [[inhibition]]. Unpleasure is thus not only an affective [[state]], it is set up as a [[principle ]] that regulates psychic functioning.

<blockquote>The ego's activities are governed by consideration of the tensions produced by stimuli [[present ]] within it or introduced into it. The raising of these tensions is in general felt as unpleasure and their lowering as [[pleasure]].<ref>{{OoPA}} Ch. 1</ref></blockquote>

<blockquote>The [[sensation ]] of unpleasure which accompanies the [[appearance ]] of symptoms varies to an extraordinary degree. In the [[case ]] of the permanent symptoms where a [[displacement ]] upon motility has occurred, such as paralyses and contractures, it is usually [[absent]]; the ego behaves towards [[them ]] as if it were not involved; in the case of the intermittent symptoms and those in the sensory sphere, definite feelings of unpleasure are experienced as a rule, which may be increased to an excessive degree in the case of the [[symptom ]] of pain.<ref>{{PoA}} Ch. 5</ref></blockquote>

Automatism; ; [[Defense]]; [[Discharge]]; [[Dualism]]; Ego; Excitation; [[Hatred]]; Historical reality; [[Hypochondria]]; Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety; "[[Instincts ]] and Their Vicissitudes"; [[Jouissance ]] ([[Lacan]]); [[Metapsychology]]; [[Moral ]] [[masochism]]; [[Negative ]] [[transference]]; [[Nirvana]]; Pain; Pleasure ego/reality ego; Pleasure/unpleasure principle; [[Principle of constancy]]; ; "[[Project ]] for a [[Scientific ]] [[Psychology]], A"; Protective Shield; Purified-pleasure-ego; [[Reality principle]]; "Repression"; [[Suffering]]; [[Symptom-formation]]; [[Thing]], The.

* [[Freud, Sigmund]]. (1900a). The [[interpretation of dreams]]. Part I, SE, 4: 1-338; Part II, SE, 5: 339-625.