ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses various problems in terms of the three classical instances of the mind. Cases of repressions of the kind, whether they refer to happenings, thoughts, or concrete feelings, are common in analytical experience. One may ask what happened to the repressed memory in question when it was in an unconscious state. Clinical experience seems to be more in favour of repression being a process which respects asymmetrical relations, that is, the mode of being seen in conscious thinking. The way of looking at the question proposes in its turn the problems of the distinction between ego and id and also the possibility that, after all, there may be repressed aspects of the ego or that people's notions must be changed. The first impression is that Freud considered the ego as the very antithesis of the system unconscious-mode of being, that is, that the ego never conforms to the characteristics of the system unconscious.
