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Abstract
Freud’s concept of repression should be discarded because we do not understand what supposedly is being repressed, nor what is repressing, nor why it is done. Freud’s answers to the first two questions fall short of the dynamic picture of forces and counterforces implicit in the idea of repression. The answer to the last question invokes an unacceptable separation of agencies in the person.
Published Online: 2016-05-12
Published in Print: 1985-11-01
© 1985 by Lucius & Lucius, Stuttgart