One Web deffinition of Mr Freuds theroy is:
The return of the repressed is the process whereby repressed elements, preserved in the unconscious, tend to reappear, in consciousness or in behavior, in the shape of secondary and more or less unrecognizable "derivatives of the unconscious." Parapraxes, bungled or symptomatic actions, are examples of such derivatives.
Basically, a event in the past effects the present due a date or a symbol which represents the event.
For example, in the film Halloween, the killer returns to the town he killed his sister in on the same date that he commited the crime.
Yes, but Freud thought we ALL have to repress some of our most primitive desires and emotions from early childhood in order to take our place in society. So infant rages etc are repressed (we cannot recall our early childhood). Does horror allow us to experience these things again, in a safe context?
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