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is a failure of translation. Grooving pathways by memory traces.

The dream must be translated from image to text before it can be interpreted (by the dreamer), and repression is, as Freud put it in 1896, 'a failure of translation'. Moreover, no current theory of memory is essentially different from Freud's original metaphor of the 'grooving' of pathways by the memory traces in the brain. (Wilden 1972a .pdf)

is a spatial removal of items from conscious knowledge to a hiding place screened from awareness. It is simply ideas stripped of their representation.

n Heidegger's view, repression so construed involves merely a spatial removal of items from conscious knowledge to a hiding place screened from awareness. In lieu of this construal with its sharp consciousness-unconsciousness dichotomy, Heidegger invokes the complex interlac-ing or intertwining of concealment and unconcealment, of clearing and veiling. 'Freud's notion of repression,' we read, 'has to do with the hiding or stashing away of an idea or representation (Vorstellung).' By contrast, concealment (Ver-bergung) is 'not the antithesis to consciousness, but rather belongs to the clearing-a clearing which Freud did not grasp.' Just as concealment is not simply an unconscious or counter-conscious domain, so clearing is not synonymous with consciousness in Freud's sense-although clearing can rise to, and is indeed the precondition of, conscious reflection. (Dallmayr 1993:239)

is another way of saying an induced mode of speaking.

Supposing we agree with Foucault (note, however, that this assignation need in no way envy good old repression-and what difference does it make whether we say repression or an 'induced' mode of speaking' It's only a question of terminology),

is never repression 'of' sex, but repression 'through' sex -sex which has been repressed hides that repression by means of sex.

One might as well say that repres sion in the maximal hypothesis, is never repression OF sex for the benefits of who knows what, but repression THROUGH sex (a grid of discourses, bodies, energies, and institutions imposed through sex, in the name of 'the talking sex'). And sex which has been repressed only hides that repression by means of sex. (Baudrillard 'forget foucault' 36)

is simply an idea stripped of its representation, and thus hidden away.

1s 2rice is higher than the cost of liberty.

The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression. W. E. B. Du Bois

is a mental process in which what is repressed are not illicit desires but prohibitions themselves.

The modern atheist thinks he knows that God is dead... what he doesn't know is that, unconsciously, he continues to believe in God. What characterizes modernity is no longer the standard figure of the believer who secretly harbors intimate doubts about his belief and engages in transgressive fantasies... today, we have, on the contrary, a subject who presents himself as a tolerant hedonist dedicated to the pursuit of happiness, and whose unconscious is the site of prohibitions: what is repressed are not illicit desires or pleasures, but prohibitions themselves.

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