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Theoretical analysis demonstrates that anxiety acts as a primary trigger for repression in the human mind, suggesting a revised model of psychological defense mechanisms.
Setting forth in rich detail Freud's new theory of anxiety, Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety (1926) is evidence for one of them. In rethinking his earlier work on the subject, Freud saw several types of anxiety at work in the mind and here argues that anxiety causes repression, rather than the other way around.
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Sigmund Freud (1936) studied this question.
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