It was very unusual in Freud's time even to acknowledge that women had sexual desire, much less to say that the repression of their sexual desire could make them hysterical. Freud demanded ...

Freud: The making conscious of repressed sexual desires in analysis makes it possible to obtain a mastery over them. It can be said that analysis sets the neurotic free from the chains of his ...

Freud, A. (1936). The Ego and the Mechanisms ... In this it resembles most closely the process of repression. Other defensive proc­esses, such as displacement, reversal or turning round upon ...

As Sarah Boxer writes in her essay in “On the Couch,” “Without Freud: No Freudian slips. No Oedipus complex. No latent ...