The Psychopathology of Everyday Life

by Sigmund Freud

dispositions. Only in certain cases have we added another motive to the factors long recognized as causative in forgetting names, and have thus laid bare the mechanism of faulty memory. The assumed dispositions are indispensable also in our case, in order to make it possible for the repressed element to associatively gain control over the desired name and take it along into the repression.

The repressed thought gains power only when it has a motive, when it needs / wants to be repressed. However hard to tell when there is a will for repression. Will this be linked to other pathologies regarding memory loss? Or the inability to remember?

At other times the suppression succeeds without disturbance of function,

without symptoms.

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disposition to forget the same;

process of suppression which has taken place ...

establishing an outer association between the concerned name and the element...

believe that one is not justified in separating the cases of name-forgetting with faulty recollection from those in which incorrect substitutive names have not obtruded themselves. These substitutive names occur spontaneously in a number of cases; in other cases, where they do not come spontaneously, they can be brought to the surface by concentration of attention, and they then show the same relation to the repressed element and the lost name as those that come spontaneously.

first, the effort of attention,

and inner determinant which adheres to the ps...

besides the simple forgetting of proper names there is another forgetting which is motivated by repression.

concerning the forgetting of a word,

observation

'Nothing human is foreign to me.'

painful

the earliest recollections of a person often seemed to preserve the unimportant and accidental,

weighty and affective impressions of this period.

memory exercises a certai...

The indifferent childhood memories owe their existence to a process of displacement.

in the reproduction they represent the substitute for other really significant impressions,

Barrier

a peculiarity in temporal relation between the concealing and the contents of the memory concealed by it.

regressive

encroaching or interposing

the concealing memory may be connected with the impression it conceals,

just through contiguity of time;

contemporaneous, or contiguous conce...

complete impressions experienced either in reality or in thought;

we deal with the failure of remember what should be correctly reproduced by memory

show wide individual variations,

what connection is there between these variations in the behaviour of childhood reminiscences, and what signification may be ascribed to them?

it must be subjected to a study in which the person furnishing the information must participate.

forgotten childhood activities

leaving a trace

development of th...

that there are particularly formed conditions of memory

these retained childhood reminisces, some appear to us readily comprehensible, while others seem strange or unintelligible.

Powerful forces from a later period have moulded the memory capacity of our infantile experiences, and it is probably due to these same forces that the understanding of our childhood is generally so very strange to us.

These differences vanish in dreams; all our dreams are preponderatingly visual. But this development is also found in the childhood memories; the latter are plastic and visual, even in those people whose later memory lacks the visual element.

for adults do not see their own persons in their reflections of later experiences.

the child's attention during his experiences is centred on himself rather than exclusively on outside impressions.

same, elaborations which might have been subjected to the influences of many later psychic forces.

it would be often necessary to present the entire life-history of the person concerned.

uncommon; we recall a situation, but it is not centralized;

"paraphasias"

words

associated and connected with one another in a quite peculiar manner"

echoes and post positions,

contaminations

substitutions