Wednesday 23 September 2009

The term 'Return of the repressed'

This is the psychological process where a memory, being a not very nice memory and something that you dont like to remember, being pushing to the unconscious part of your mind or 'Repressed'. For example if you were raped as a child, then you push it to the back of your mind, not to think about it. The return of the repressed is when the bad memory that you had forgotten all about is brought back through thoughts or memories, and you associate it with the bad memory.

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