Repression., hiding societys own filthy secret.

Is the idea of  'represion, society’s repression of its own filthy secret.

Granted, pieces of the self need to be created that can function autonomously, thereby fencing off forbidden memories from the self as a whole.

But simple  'represssion' cannot contain deep and complex trauma. The unconscious may holds secrets so terrible that simple repression, a massive and motivated forgetting, cannot contain them.

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