The unconscious stores our unresolved issues repressed deep-rooted painful feelings, memories and fantasies from infancy and childhood.
Sigmund Freud
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Jean-Luc Vannier reminds us of the pre-eminence of the unconscious and that of the affect in the Freudian approach
The term was first used by Sigmund Freud in a work named The Neuro-Psychoses of Defence in 1894.
Freud wrote, ‘nahrungseinfuhr’ instead of ‘nahrungzufuhr’ which implies the idea of an ‘intromission’ of the food into the child’s mouth.