...I have seen his penis before when it is hard. He'd tried to put it into my bottom. He is going to do it again, isn't he?

"I don't want to be here," I say. "Unlock the door. Please, Daddy."

The bunker sits around me, heavy and grotesque. I disappear."

(de Milly, http://www.walterdemilly.com/chapter.htm)

Who would want to remember this sort of thing? Certainly not the poor child who is recalling it, so why would he? He didn't, for a long time, because of the pain this memory causes, so he did something that many people do with painful memories. He repressed it. Why do people repress memory, and how can it be recalled? This paper hopes to unlock a few of the secrets of this strange phenomenon.

Firstly, repression, as defined by A Dictionary of Psychoanalysis, is the unconscious and involuntary process by which an unacceptable impulse or idea is rendere

After reviewing all of the material presented here, the writer has come up with several ideas of repression herself. One is that not all repressed memories can be accessed, because if they could, we could actually remember prenatal memories, and thus far there is no known evidence to support prenatal memory that the writer could find. Another idea the writer has realized is that everyone represses memories all the time. Tings happen everyday that we do not remember, and while most aren't repressed, merely interference with recollection (Phillips, Ch. 3), there are some that are repressed every day. If a person trips and falls, there is a good chance that they will not remember it the next week, until a friend or associate brings it up. It may be temporarily repressed due to the embarrassment, then recalled as soon as a reminder is brought up. The writer is curious to find evidence to support the recall of very early life, like prenatal memory for example, as it would shed more light on the topic of repression and memory in general.

However, the theory of repression is still believed to reside in the realm of psychoanalysis (Loftus, 1). Basically the repression theory goes like this: Something happens in life that is so shocking that the memory is pushed into some inaccessible corner of the consciousness and "sleeps isolated from the rest of mental life" (Loftus, 518). As the writer's definition stated, repressed memories seem more like memories that were a total shock to the system of the person, physically, emotionally, etc.

Selective forgetting of materials that cause pain; Not under voluntary control; Material is not lost but stored in unconscious and can be restored to conscious if anxiety associated with the memory is removed (Holmes, 87). The writer accepts these elements, but disagrees with the third element. There can be memories so absolutely horrible and disturbing to th

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