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The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 1950, Vol. XIX, No. 3, p. 410.
In addition to the widely accepted factors of practice, reward and punishment, it is proposed that the learning process involves the efficient use of repression and repressive mechanisms. Repression can be considered a more complex form of the processes of suppression and inhibition.
Life activity is in essence an exchange of energy between the organism and its environment. Any repression of outpouring energy by the organism is of value to it only if greater mastery of the environment is thereby accomplished.