ABSTRACT
This chapter considers an explanatory approach to the formation of psychological symptom that is based on Freudian insights, but from writings published after the Studies on Hysteria. Using the primal memory terminology, remembering involves describing or rather re-describing the content of the memory and also expressing or acknowledging its affective importance. This removal of repression or extraction from isolation also involves the recognition of the symbolic and causal connection between the primal memory and the symptom. Ordinary experience as well as Freud's case-studies shows, however, that people do not tell so many such stories of suffering about themselves. Rather, they usually tell one such story that focuses on one or few such primal memories. People often tell stories in such a way that relieves them from responsibility of their 'maladaptive' behavior. The chapter proposes is an imagistic and non-conceptual seeing-as account.
