Return of The Repressed
by Concepts and definitions of psychoanalysis science.
The process by which the repressed elements, never annihilated and maintained by repression, tend to reappear in the conscious field, and can do it so deformed, in the form of compromise between id, ego and superego.
Freud always insisted indestructibility of unconscious contents. Not only the repressed elements are not annihilated, but also tend incessantly to reappear in consciousness along more or less diverted and through formations derived more or less difficult to recognize, the derivatives of the unconscious: dreams, slips, symptoms, etc..
The idea that the symptoms are explained by a return of the repressed is asserted from the earliest psychoanalytic writings of Freud. There we find also the essential idea that the return of the repressed takes place, often through compromise formation between the three psychic instances id (which is always in the commitment), ego and superego. Freud pointed out some conditions for the occurrence of the return of the repressed:
a – weakening of counter-investment (loss of self-esteem, low self-esteem).
b – increasing the pressure of the drive (under the influence of new psychic stimulus)
c – biological and hormonal changes of puberty.
d – the occurrence of current events that evoke the repressed material and to eliminate, temporarily, the actions of counter-investment.
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