The Return of the Repressed

The Return of the Repressed is a process explained by Sigmund Freud who theorises that when a thought or feeling constantly presses to gain access to the mind (unconciously when the thought or feeling is out of awareness). From here, the thought or feeling would be stored and then would constantly try to be put into action .The mind is on contsant prevention to stop the expression being shown but then the thought or emotion disguises itself and then it turns into a symptom. As humans we have a form of direct mind which we use to think. We also have an unconcious mind which holds emotions and feelings and lets them out unconciously. We do not think about being angry, happy or sad. It just happens. The Return of the Repressed is the idea that trapped thoughts or emotions let themselves out unconciously if we have not found a way to resolve this feeling. As an only child, the parents revolve their attention around the child constantly. When the parents are about to have another child and the child realises that the attention he recieved will be no more, the child immediately starts repressing feelings and emotions such as, excitement and anger. If the angry emotion stays, it will soon become unconscious and the child will have to accept the infant into his life and accepted that the newcomer is a sibling. Usually the child would show his love for the infant. This is the childs idea of gaining attention back from his parents but using the infant for it. Once the child realises that it is not working, violence can ensue even though the child still loves the infant. Finally, the child realises that this does not work either and comes to understand that love for the sibling is more appropriate than anything else. The repressed and unconcious emotion has been destroyed.

This idea can be added to the feelings and thoughts we recieve when we watch horror movies.

I didn't have much of a clue as to what sort of "media" I could have used for this blog post. So instead, I exploited it by using a small sketch from Cyanide and Happiness.