Listen to a psychologist tell a story

Chapter 29

Chapter 4 Section 2 Freud's "occult memory"?
The secret of life is hidden in the heart of childhood. ? ?

There was a 24-year-old young man from a middle-class family in Austria.One day, he suddenly recalled an event that happened when he was 5 years old.At that time, he and his aunt were sitting in the gazebo in the garden of their home, and he was sitting on a low stool beside his aunt, learning to recognize letters.He found it difficult to distinguish the letter "m" from the letter "n", so he asked his aunt to show him how to distinguish the two letters.My aunt said that the letter "m" is one stroke more than "n".This memory has been stuck in his mind, and he once told it when he went to a psychological clinic. ?
Mind walk?

This is a story told by Freud.He argues that this memory overshadows another important part of childhood psychology, the child's curiosity to understand the differences between men and women.This kind of curiosity is almost shared by most children.Freud said: "Just like he wanted to distinguish between the two letters m and n, he also wanted to know the difference between boys and girls. I really hope that my aunt can teach him in this regard. Once he finds out, The difference in the two aspects is very similar, and the boy is only a little more than the girl, so he remembers the curiosity of childhood."?
The memories preserved by people in childhood seem to be some insignificant and unimportant things, but these trivial memories seem to have a displacement process, that is, their content is a substitute for other important memory content.These memory impressions can be discovered by means of psychoanalysis.But there is a resistance that prevents them from being directly expressed. These unimportant memories are not only responsible for the impressions it retains, but also for their content and associations with other repressed important things. This kind of memory is called masked memory. ?
Which memories of your childhood have been obscured?Find them and you will discover the secret of life. ?
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