The Freudian Understanding of the symptom

For my doctoral thesis with the School of Psychotherapy I am examining the writings and clinical backdrop and validity to Freud's understanding of the symptom, and will be, in that context, showing how his theory of the Symptom is a text from the unconscious, a text whose expression is the Symptom but behind which, if unravelled, like a knot of coagulated affect, arising from trauma, and, confected from the social cultural deposits, is an agreement between the Ego and the Id in a context, brought about through Repression.…