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In 1893 a new construct was introduced in psychology: repression. As far as psychology was concerned, the term “construct” still resided in the collective preconscious. Freud did not call it so but he described the phenomenon and how he thought this mechanism would work. “The basis for repression itself can only be a feeling of unpleasure, the incompatibility between the single idea that is to be repressed and the dominant mass of ideas constituting the ego. The repressed idea takes its revenge however by becoming pathogenic.” (Freud, 1893, p. 116) In his report on the case of Miss Lucie R., Freud further postulated that it is primal repression that exerts some suction on all other ideas or affects later to be repressed: “When this process occurs for the first time there comes into being a nucleus and center of crystallization for the formation of a psychical group divorced from the ego—a group around which everything which would imply an acceptance of the incompatible idea subsequently collects.” (1893, p. 123) |
