The Other Side of The Symptom

Ever since the discovery of the unconscious, psychopathological symptoms have been explained on the basis of defence, in which repression plays a prominent role. However, after Freud it was more or less forgotten that repression in itself is a second moment within the causation of psychopathology: If what is spoken of as 'repression' is examined more closely, we shall find reason to split the process up into three phases which are easily distinguishable from one another conceptually.…