AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Sigmund Freud originally developed the concept of repression as part of his psychoanalytic theory. Repression occurs when a thought, memory, or feeling is too painful for an individual, so the person unconsciously pushes the information out of consciousness and becomes unaware of its existence.

Detailed explanation-2: -Freud viewed the unconscious as a repository for socially unacceptable ideas, anxiety-producing wishes or desires, traumatic memories, and painful emotions put out of mind by the mechanism of repression.

Detailed explanation-3: -Psychoanalysis was founded by Sigmund Freud. Freud believed that people could be cured by making their unconscious a conscious thought and motivations, and by that gaining “insight". The aim of psychoanalysis therapy is to release repressed emotions and experiences, i.e. make the unconscious conscious.

Detailed explanation-4: -Sigmund Freud’s theory He would later call the theory of repression “the corner-stone on which the whole structure of psychoanalysis rests” ("On the History of the Psycho-Analytic Movement").