manifest content is comprised of material that was once conscious but has been forgotten or repressed.
manifest content is comprised of material that was once conscious but has been forgotten or repressed.
what is comprised of material that was once conscious but has been forgotten or repressed?
manifest content
the personal unconscious includes anything which is not presently conscious but can be. the personal unconscious is made up essentially of contents which have at one time been conscious but have disappeared from consciousness through having been forgotten or repressed. the personal unconscious is like most people's understanding of the unconscious in that it includes both memories that are easily brought to mind and those that have been suppressed for some reason. jung's theory of a personal unconscious is quite similar to freuds creation of a region containing a person's repressed, forgotten or ignored experiences. however, jung considered the personal unconscious to be a "more or less superficial layer of the unconscious." within the personal unconscious is what he called "feeling-toned complexes." he said that "they constitute the personal and private side of psychic life."
personal unconscious
perhaps one of the most controversial and well-known of the psychological effects trauma can have on patients is repressed memory. the theory/reality of repressed memory is the idea that an event is so traumatic, that the memory was not forgotten in the traditional sense, or kept secret in shame or fear, but removed from the conscious mind, still present in the long-term memory but hidden from the patient's knowledge. sigmund freud originated the concept of repression and it has developed and changed since his original work. in the eyes of critics of repressed memory, it is synonymous with false memory; however its proponents will argue that these people truly did have traumatic experiences.
memory and trauma