'The feeling in déjà vu, "I have experienced all this just this way before", is better understood if it is thought of as " encore vu ": "I am experiencing all this again; I am having a second chance". It is an illusory fulfilment of a wish that one could repeat some previous experience so that one could make the outcome accord better with a desire: "If it be true that I am re-experiencing this, then I can hope that I will have a second chance to realize some other more important unfulfilled wish". Latent déjà vu wishes occur at various levels of awareness; some are readily available to consciousness; others, more primitive, are deeply repressed.' (Author's Summary.)