The Return of the Repressed

This theory was first thought about by Freud

Everyone reacts to things in different ways, this though can be a distinction between emotions and feelings. Normally emotions come from a experience or situation a person has been in, this is because it can alter our perception, response and interpretation. The reason we have emotions is because it controls the way we think, behave and also our actions. Though if these emotions are ingored it can affect our body in different ways, this is known as either ingoring, dismissing or by repressing. This can have serious affects though on the body, but instead of it being more mentally it will appear more physically because the person suffering is ingoring their emotions. Though some emotions aren't felt but instead released within the body causing problems later on in life, with chronic illnesses as the emotions need to be released to make a person feel better about themselves. Though there any many ways that this can be released as in anxiety, negativity, frustration or even depression, these are known as chemical reactions that happen within the body. This is why some people get referred to a doctor when they are suffering from these problems, as if they dont talk about them it just eats away at the person more and more when they can get to the point of having a break down. This has a lot to do with the unconscious mind, that isnt easy to understand as we do not know what happens in a persons mind and how they will react to things.


Freud thought that we all have to repress some of our primitive desires and emotions, so that we can take our place in society. So infant rages are repressed this means that we can not recall our early childhood, though this theory is about whether in horror movies it allows us to expereince them again but in a safe context. This theory of the return of the repressed involves the unconscious mind, and that maybe in the horror movie part of this thought or feeling is stored in the long term memory that takes some events or watching a horror movie for us to remember it. And some times people won't show these emotions, and they have to be let out some way so it can become a sympton some times dependant upon the person.