ABSTRACT
The problem of repression-and we introduce it gingerly as “ the problem,” since no consensus has yet emerged about whether we are dealing with an everyday “ fact,” a "theory ,” or a discredited “ hypothesis” —poses some unique difficulties. These difficulties are profound as well as far-ranging, involving intractable issues of methodology, theory, and even semantics. Beyond these types of problems, which perhaps are really not that unusual but simply the burden of any truly seminal concept in psychology, there exists an additional difficulty that probably is unique to repression among major psycho logical constructs.
