Philosophy of Psychoanalysis

Motivated Unknowing: Repression with a Hint of Dissociation

Philosophy of Psychoanalysis

Show Notes

Who is the ‘self’? Understanding the things we push down. This lecture is the first of two that address; unconscious mental states, secondary repression, mechanics of secondary repression (conflict, cleaving of thought & affect), the paradox of repression, the problem of the censor (Sartre) and Doris's solution to this via an anxious psychic pistol shot, motivations for repression (attitudes, cultural norms), primal repression, content and maintenance of repression, repression vs suppress...

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