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The déjà phenomenon is an ego-syntonic experience. The jamais phenomenon represents precisely the opposite. The former is affirmative and has the vitality of life; the latter is ego-alien and negative and has the finality and silence of never having happened. In the déjà experience something forgotten is helped to enter consciousness; in the jamais experience something
is withdrawn from consciousness and kept hidden in the recesses of the forgotten. Both reactions are widely differing mechanisms of defense. Whereas the déjà experience has synthesis as its dynamic factor, the dynamic factor in the jamais phenomenon is fragmentation.