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Repression is a key concept of psychoanalysis, where it is understood as a defense mechanism that "ensures that what is unacceptable to the conscious mind, and would if recalled arouse anxiety, is prevented from entering into it."[1] According to psychoanalytic theory, repression plays a major role in many mental illnesses, and in the psyche of the average person.[2] American psychologists began to attempt to study repression in the experimental laboratory around 1930. However, psychoanalysts were at first uninterested in attempts to study repression in laboratory settings, and later came to reject them. Most psychoanalysts concluded that such attempts misrepresented the psychoanalytic concept of repression. The founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, in seeking to move away from hypnosis and towards encouraging patients to remember their past in a conscious state, observed that the process was strikingly difficult, and he began to suspect that there was some sort of psychic mechanis

Repression (psychoanalysis) - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Unconscious defense mechanism This article may require copy editing for spelling, grammar, style, cohesion, or tone . You can assist by editing it . ( July 2026 ) ( Learn how and when to remove this message ) In psychology and the psychoanalytic theory , repression is a defense mechanism that "ensures that what is unacceptable to the conscious mind, and would if recalled arouse anxiety , is prevented from entering into it." [ 1 ] Psychoanalytic theory asserts that repression plays a major role in many

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