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The concept of =====Formations=====Since [[repression]] (does not destroy the [[idea]]s or [[memories]] that are its target, but merely confines [[them]] to the [[unconscious]], the [[repressed]] [[Frenchmaterial]]: ''refoulement'') is one of the most basic always liable to [[conceptsreturn]] in a distorted [[psychoanalytic theoryform]], and denotes the process by which certain in [[thoughtsymptom]]s or , [[memory|memoriesdream]] are expelled from s, [[consciousnessslips of the tongue]] and confined to , etc. (the [[unconsciousreturn of the repressed]]).

=====Neurosis=====For [[FreudLacan]] was first led to hypothesise , [[repression]] is the process of fundamental operation which distinguishes '''[[repressionneurosis]] through his investigation into ''' from the [[amnesiaother]] of [[hysteria|hystericalclinical structure]] s. Whereas [[patientpsychotic]]s[[foreclose]], and [[pervert]]s [[disavow]], only [[neurotic]]s [[repress]].

He later distinguished between =====Repressed Signifier=====What is it that is repressed? At one point [[Lacan]] speaks of the [[signified]] as the [[object]] of [[primal repression]] (,<ref>{{E}}} p.55</ref> but he soon abandons this view and argues instead that it is always a '[[mythsignifier]]ical' that is [[forgettingrepressed]] of something that was , never a [[conscioussignified]] .<ref>{{S11}} p. 218</ref> This latter view seems to correspond more closely to begin with, an originary 'psychical act' by which the [[unconsciousFreud]] 's view that what is first constituted) and repressed is not the "[[secondary repressionaffect]] " (concrete acts of which can only be [[repressiondisplaced]] whereby some idea or perception that was once transformed) but the "ideational [[consciousrepresentative]] is expelled from " of the [[consciousdrive]]).

Since =====Primary and Secondary=====[[repressionLacan]] does not destroy the also takes up [[ideaFreud]]'s or [[memoriesdistinction]] that are its target, but merely confines them to the between [[unconsciousprimal repression]], the and secondary [[repressed]] [[material]] is always liable to return in a distorted form, in [[symptom]]s, [[dream]]s, [[slips of the tongue]], etc. (the [[return of the repressedrepression]]).:

For <blockquote>"From the [[Lacanmoment]]he speaks, [[repression]] is the fundamental operation which distinguishes [[neurosis]] from the other [[clinical structure]]s. Whereas [[psychotic]]s [[foreclose]], that precise moment and [[pervert]]s [[disavow]]not before, only I [[neurotic]]s [[repressunderstand]]that there is repression."<ref>{{S20}} p.53</ref></blockquote>

What is it that is repressed? At one point [[Lacan]] speaks of the does not see [[signifiedrepression|primary repression]] as the a specific psychical [[objectact]] of repression,<ref>{{E}}} p.55</ref> but he soon abandons this view and argues instead that it is always a localizable in [[signifiertime]] that is , but as a [[repressedstructure|structural feature]], never a of [[signifiedlanguage]].<ref>{{Sl1}} p.218</ref> This latter view seems to correspond more closely to itself - namely, its necessary [[Freudlack|incompleteness]]'s view that what is repressed is not , the '[[affectimpossibility]]' (which can only be displaced or transformed) but the 'ideational representative' of ever saying "the [[drivetruth]].[[Lacanabout]] also takes up [[Freud]]'s distinction between [[primal repression]] and secondary [[repression]]:truth."<ref>{{Ec}} p. 868</ref>

=====Secondary=====[[Primal Repression|Secondary repression]] (Ger. ''Urverdr‰ngung'') is the [[alienation]] of [[desire]] when [[need]] is articulated in [[demand]].<ref>{{E}} p.286</ref>It is also the [[unconscious]] [[signifying chain]].<ref>{{E}} p.314</ref>[[Primary repression]] is the [[repression]] of the first [[signifierGerman]].  "From the moment he speaks, from that precise moment and not before, I understand that there is repression."<ref>{{S20}} p.53</ref> [[Lacan]] does not see [[primary repression]] as a specific psychical [[act]], localisable in [[time]], but as a structural feature of [[language]] itself - namely, its necessary incompleteness, the [[impossibility]] of ever saying "the truth about truth."<ref>{{Ec}} p.868</ref> [[Secondary repression]] (Ger. ''Verdr‰ngungVerdrängung'') is a specific psychical [[act]] by which a [[signifier]] is elided from the [[signifying chain]]. [[Repression|Secondary repression]] is [[structure]]d like a [[metaphor]], and always involves 'the [[return of the repressed]]', whereby the [[repressed]] [[signifier]] reappears under the guise of the various [[formation]]s of the [[unconscious]] (i.e. [[symptom]]s, [[dream]]s, [[parapraxis|parapraxes]], [[joke]]s, etc.).In [[Repression|secondary repression]], [[repression]] and the [[return of the repressed]] "are the same thing."      The theory of '[[repression]]' is one of the cornerstones of [[psychoanalysisthing]].[[Repression]] occurs when impulses, [[wish]]es or [[memories]], usually but not always of a sexual nature, that are bound up with the [[drive]]s, are denied access to the [[conscious]] mind by the [[ego]] because it regards them as a [[threat]] to its integrity or because they offend the [[ethical]] standards imposed upon it by the [[super-ego]].Such impulses and wishes are forced back into the [[unconscious]] but almost inevitably find other means of expression by using the mechanisms of [[condensation]] and [[displacement]].The resultant conflict between the respective [[demand]]s of the [[ego]] and the [[unconscious]] results in the formation of [[symptom]]s, which are a form of [[substitute]] sexual [[satisfaction]] or [[wish-fulfilment]].[[Repression]] is not a single [[act]] which occurs only once, but a continuous application of pressure in the direction of the [[unconscious]].The theory of [[repression]] is the key to the psychoanalytic understanding of [[neurosis]] and especially [[hysteria]].[[Lacan]] argues that the triggering of a [[psychosis]] is governed by the different and specific process of [[forclosure]]. ==Primal Repression==The expression '[[primal repression]]' is used by [[Freud]] to refer to a hypothetical process in which the [[unconscious]] is constituted through the f[[ormation]] and [[repression]] of [[unconscious]] ideas and [[representation]]s.The result is the lating [[fixation]] of the [[drive]] to one particular [[representation]].'Primal' is used here in the sense in which [[Freud]] speaks of the [[primal scene]]. == def ==The ego's mechanism for suppressing and forgetting its instinctual impulses. "