Return of the Repressed

The 'Return of the Repressed' explains the existance neurotic symptoms. It is basically the process where forbidden ideas that have been repressed and reserved into the unconscious mind, tend to reappear in consciousness or in behavior when triggered by something.


Neurosis (from the Greek νεύρωσις) refers to a class of functional mental disorder involving distress but neither delusions nor hallucinations, where behavior is not outside socially acceptable norms.[1] It is also known as psychoneurosis or neurotic disorder, and thus those suffering from it are said to be neurotic.