In the late 1900's Sigmund Freud developed ideas of psychoanalysis which had never been heard of before. He stated how he believed that our personality, fears, phobias, behaviour and things we enjoyed were all affected by repressed memories which we hold in the unconscious mind. This idea of repressed memories of events which happen throughout life, although particularly in childhood has been used for the basis of many modern horrors.
Monday, 11 October 2010
The return of the repressed.
In the late 1900's Sigmund Freud developed ideas of psychoanalysis which had never been heard of before. He stated how he believed that our personality, fears, phobias, behaviour and things we enjoyed were all affected by repressed memories which we hold in the unconscious mind. This idea of repressed memories of events which happen throughout life, although particularly in childhood has been used for the basis of many modern horrors.
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Yes - early childhood it the MOST important. Freud thought we all have to repress some of our most primitive desires and emotions 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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