From: Carol Knowles [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
	Subject: Re: [evol-psych] Preprint: The unified theory of repression
	
	Hi Psyarters
	
	The paper indicates that Anna Freud caused confusions by claiming repression
	was unconscious, and suppression was the conscious way of defending against
	it. Is anyone able to tell me if this related to the way ego psychologists
	work and how this is related to the arguments of those such as Lacan who
	problematize the way the ego psychologists work?
	
	The quote I refer to above follows - it is on pg 3 of the article.
	
	"The article is organized into four sections. First, in a historical
	analysis, I try to show that the classic conception of repression, from
	Herbart to Freud, is consistent with modern laboratory research, but that
	confusion has resulted from a semantic distortion introduced, ironically, by
	Anna Freud, who insisted that repression needed to be an unconscious
	process, its conscious counterpart being suppression. Sigmund Freud,
	actually, used repression and suppression interchangeably and insisted on
	the unity of mental life across the conscious-unconscious continuum, so that
	repression could be
	both conscious and unconscious".
	
	Carol.
	
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	From: William Benzon [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
	Subject: FW: [evol-psych] Preprint: The unified theory of repression
	
	You can download the full text of this paper at the URL indicated at the
	end. It is going to be published in Brain and Behavioral Science.
	
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	Subject: [evol-psych] Preprint: The unified theory of repression
	
	TITLE: The unified theory of repression
	
	AUTHOR: Matthew Hugh Erdelyi
	
	ABSTRACT:
	Repression has become an empirical fact that is at once obvious and
	problematic. Fragmented clinical and laboratory traditions and disputed
	terminology have resulted in a Babel of misunderstandings in which false
	distinctions are imposed (e.g., between repression and suppression) and
	necessary distinctions not drawn (e.g., between the mechanism and the use to
	which it is put, defense being just one). "Repression" was introduced by
	Herbart to designate the (nondefensive) inhibition of ideas by other ideas
	in their struggle for consciousness. Freud adapted repression to the
	defensive inhibition of "unbearable" mental contents. Substantial
	experimental literatures on attentional biases, thought avoidance,
	interference, and intentional forgetting exist, the oldest prototype being
	the work of Ebbinghaus, who showed that intentional avoidance of memories
	results in their progressive forgetting over time. It has now become clear,
	as clinicians had claimed, that the inaccessible materials are often
	available and emerge indirectly (e.g., procedurally, implicitly). It is also
	now established that the Ebbinghaus retention function can be partly
	reversed, with resulting increases of conscious memory over time
	(hypermnesia). Freud's clinical experience revealed early on that exclusion
	from consciousness was effected not just by simple repression (inhibition)
	but also by a variety of distorting techniques, some deployed to degrade
	latent contents (denial), all eventually subsumed under the rubric of
	defense mechanisms ("repression in the widest sense"). Freudian and
	Bartlettian distortions are essentially the same, even in name, but for
	motive (cognitive vs. emotional), and experimentally induced false memories
	and other "memory illusions" are laboratory analogs of self-induced
	distortions.
	
	KEYWORDS: Avoidance, Bartlett, Defense, Denial, Distortion, Ebbinghaus,
	False-Memories, Freud, Inhibition, Repression, Suppression.
	
	FULL TEXT BBS: http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Erdelyi-04022004/Referees/
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
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