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Alexithymia And The Defense Of Primal Repression
1,197 wordsPrimal Repression may well account for the psychic structural defect and many of the clinical features associated with the alexithymia construct. [James D. A. Parker and Graeme J. Taylor in Disorders of Affect Regulation p. 89 ] Repression proper is a defensive process that evolves out of primal repression, and involves a rejection from the conscious mind of already formed instinctual wishes and other representations. Primal repression, on the other hand, is akin to [an] idea of Freud's viz. , h...
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