PEP | Article - The Mechanism of Denial; The Manifest Content of the Dream. (Monograph III of the Kris Study Group of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute).: Edited by Bernard D. Fine, M.D., Edward D. Joseph, M.D., and Herbert F. Waldhorn, M.D. New York: International Universities Press, Inc., 1969. 113 pp.

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Abstract

Generations of students who have become bewildered in their efforts to differentiate between denial and repression may be relieved to find that their confusion is not due to obtuseness but to contradictory and muddled usage of the two terms in the psychoanalytic literature. Freud himself was partly responsible for this. In his 1927 paper, On Fetishism, he suggested that the term repression might be divided into 'denial' when it referred to a vicissitude of the idea, and 'repression' when it referred to a vicissitude of the affect. In his 1938 Outline of Psychoanalysis, however, he applied 'denial' to a defense against the demands of the external world and 'repression' to a defense against the instinctual demands of the internal world. In The Mechanism of

PEP | Article - The Mechanism of Denial; The Manifest Content of the Dream. (Monograph III of the Kris Study Group of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute).: Edited by Bernard D. Fine, M.D., Edward D. Joseph, M.D., and Herbert F. Waldhorn, M.D. New York: International Universities Press, Inc., 1969. 113 pp. - Lubin, Albert J.