From the repression of contents to the rules of the (narrative) self: a present-day cognitive view of the Freudian phenomenon of repressed contents.
Psychology and psychotherapy June 2006 Vesa Talvitie, Hannu Tiitinen
In psychoanalysis, it is commonly thought that ideas (desires, fears, etc.) may be repressed, and that they can be made conscious. In this article, we shall apply cognitive viewpoints and assert that ideas do not exist in the unconscious as 'ready made', and thus repressed ideas cannot be 'brought' into consciousness. We suggest that the contents of consciousness are formed by processes on four...