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Chapter 34

Chapter 4, Section 7 Where did the seven hours of memory go?
In order to protect herself and forget the pain, she chose to lose her memory. ? ?

One summer evening, Miss Mary was sent to a mental hospital by the police because of her strange behavior. ?
It turned out that she had lost seven hours of memory—she had no memory of where she was or what she had done during the period from [-]:[-] noon to [-]:[-] pm that day.

Under the doctor's questioning, Mary told her life experience (she remembered the experience before twelve noon that day clearly):?
Her family is unfortunate, her parents separated because of her mother's affair.She used to live with her mother, who was often courteous, and on several occasions Mary was sexually harassed by her mother's lover.

Later, Mary fell in love with a young sailor and became pregnant, but the crew disappeared a few days before the wedding and never returned.She gave birth to the child, and three years later, she took the child to live with her father and two younger brothers. ?
But her father was not good to her. Three or four weeks before the hospitalization, her father always scolded her for being lazy, lying, and not being a good girl.During an argument with her father, she developed headaches, burnout, insomnia, anxiety, loneliness, and depression.At this time, she met Mike, a boy slightly older than her, and soon became attached to him.In the two weeks before she was sent to the mental hospital, she often visited him at night, and gained a warmth and peace from him that she didn't have at home. ?
After Mary was hospitalized, she quickly adapted to the life in the ward, and her mood improved a lot, but no matter how she thought about it, she couldn't remember what happened during those seven hours.She just remembers getting on a bus before noon after doing her chores that morning to see her doctor, and then a seven-hour "gap."And she herself doesn't seem to care about the "vacancy" of this memory.With the encouragement of the medical staff, Mary said that she recalled repeatedly, and only one image came to mind - the parking lot, but she didn't think the "parking lot" had anything to do with her. ?
The doctor believed that this image must be related to her subconscious experience, and asked her to describe this image in more detail.She said it was a parking lot full of cars and there was a man on the other side of the parking lot, I don't know who he was.There was a girl running from here to him, and she thought it was her.Again and again, the girl is running as fast as she can, but doesn't seem to be moving.It looked like she was running, but she didn't know why she was running... She thought she might be running to ask the man for help.

The doctor asked her what was in her mind when she mentioned "running for help"?She said she was thinking of a doctor.Four days before the incident, Marie thought it was time to see a psychiatrist, and she mentioned it to her boyfriend, who was working in W-town at the time. ?
The matter has gradually become clear, because Mary was brought to the hospital by the police in W Town after she was found to have lost her memory.The doctor believed that the above-mentioned "dream-like scene" must be a fragment of her lost memory, so she was hypnotized.Under hypnosis, Mary finally recalled the seven-hour blank: ?
She took a bus to see a doctor because in recent days she had had horrible fantasies about killing her father, brother and son, and she had to seek help from a doctor.After getting out of the car, she went to ring the doctor's doorbell, but there was no response, and she called him, but no one answered.So she decided to go to her boyfriend Mike, she had to see him, and he had to help her, because her father and mother didn't care about her, her best girlfriend avoided seeing her, and the doctor was away, so Mike must help She can do it.

So she took a ride to W town again, and when she arrived in W town it was about two o'clock in the afternoon, and she saw Mike's car parked in the parking lot, and Mike was walking towards his car from one of the entrances of the parking lot.She was waiting for him at another entrance, and Mary thought that Mike would see her and take her with him, he should know her situation, and she needed his help.But Mike didn't see her and drove away.So she hurried across the street, an oncoming car nearly knocked her over, and she began to feel dizzy.She thinks she needs help, then she sees a police station and goes in...?
In the hypnotic state, Mary recounted that at this point, she suddenly became agitated, but slowly returned to normal.After waking up from the hypnotic state, she finally remembered what happened in those seven hours. ?
Mind walk?

Psychologist Freud once analyzed this kind of case. He believed that this is a kind of "psychogenic amnesia", that is, the loss of memory function. ?
Freud believes that when patients encounter external annoying events or internal psychological conflicts, they will not be able to accept them, and they will drive them out with the help of a special mental force (called repression in psychoanalysis). to the realm of the subconscious, and cannot be aroused by the conscious mind.Once this symptom occurs, it forms a protective effect on the patient, preventing them from mourning the recall of unacceptable spiritual connotations.This is what happened to Mary in the story. ?
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