Freud and Religion
Repression is the forced storage into the unconscious of experiences that are so severe you don’t have emotions towards them. Everything you experience or want to experience stays with you in your unconscious mind. Bad experiences are pushed down into the unconscious instead of naturally falling down, becoming repressed. A good example of repression, according to Freud, is the repression of the Oedipus complex; we push those feelings down into the unconscious mind. Eventually the repressed thoughts and feelings will come out as aggression and may cause neurosis.Neurosis is caused by continually repressing thoughts and feelings. By not being able to fulfill your sexual drives and killing drives, you push them down into the unconscious. These basic drives want to be fulfilled by the id and can cause neurosis if they aren’t. Freud goes on to say that everybody is neurotic to some degree, because we all hold some repressed thoughts and feelings, including the desires of the Oedipus complex and the desire to kill; nobody is completely normal. Freud also says that the only way to cure repression is through psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysis will take the repressed memory from the unconscious and move it to the conscious mind.
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