The Deformation and Derivatives of The Unconscious

Deformation (censure action and defense developed by the superego)

The deformation is always due to the formation of commitment (ego, id and superego). Overall effect, the work of the superego in psychic drives and their representatives who infiltrate into the ego, threatening him for the return of the repressed. The dream represents a kind of deformation where the latent thoughts are transformed into a product manifest hardly recognizable. Ex: deformation of the dream slips, obsessions, phobic symptoms, etc.)..

We consider the deformation as a form of defense that protects the ego. The super deformed psychic representatives feared, because they are contrary to the ideal of ego / ego ideal, which infiltrate into the ego. The deformation is caused by condensation of the associated representations brought by impulses bypassing the counter investments. Is the strain that produces neurotic symptoms (fears, compulsions, phobias, impulses, etc.).. The agent of the deformation is always the superego acts to defend the ego.

The derivatives of the Unconscious

Expression often used by Freud in his dynamic conception (conflicting) unconscious.O the unconscious has as one of its functions to resurrect the consciousness everything that needs to be elaborated by the ego. These derivatives of the unconscious as the repressed content of representations, will be subject to new measures of defense.

The derivatives of the unconscious do not designate a specific production of the unconscious in particular, but includes, for example, the children reported symptoms the facts in the analytic session, fantasies, slips, etc.. The expression described as “derived from the repressed representative” or “the repressed” is related to the theory of two times of repression. What was repressed in the first half (primal or primary) tends to flare up again in consciousness in the form of derivatives and is then subjected to a second repression (repression subsequent or secondary).