Freud on the Unconscious and How Trauma Affects Feelings:

Dr. Jim reads from Freud, The Unconscious about the Instincts or Feelings an Emotions:

Freud defined an instinct as "the concept on the frontier between the somatic and the mental..., the psychical representative of organic forces." (Instincts and their vicissitudes, p. 112). He then wrote about "emotional impulses" that are "perceived, but misconstrued. Owing to the repression of its proper representative it has been forced to become connected with another idea, and is now regarded by consciousness as the manifestation of that idea"--"the idea has undergone repression." Three such vicissitudes are possible: 1. suppression "so that no trace of it is found; 2. affect, which involves a "qualitatively colored" mood; or, 3. "it is changed into anxiety." (Freud, Repression, p. 153).

Freud, S. (1915). The Unconscious. The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Volume XIV (1914-1916): On the History of the Psycho-Analytic Movement, Papers on Metapsychology and Other Works, 159-215



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