
Freud in Focus 4: Episode 1
Freud Museum London: Psychoanalysis Podcasts
Understanding Memories and Inhibitions
Current symptoms and inhibitions are substitutions for forgotten experiences, as Freud pointed out. Patients share distorted fragments of these memories through dreams and free association during sessions. Free associations provide insights into repressed materials through illusions. The repetitions of affects related to repressed material are evidenced in the transference process. Analysts are presented with fragmented and coded memories rather than the original, unaltered past.
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