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It is probably like this: some of the scenes are accessible
directly, but others only by way of phantasies set up in front of them.1 The scenes are arranged in the order of increasing resistance: the more slightly repressed ones come to light first, but only incompletely on account of their association with the severely repressed ones. The path taken by [analytic] work first goes down in loops to the scenes or to their neighbourhood; then from a symptom a little deeper down, and then again from a symptom deeper still. Since most of the scenes converge on the few symptoms, our path makes repeated loops through the background thoughts of the same symptoms. [See Fig. 11.]
It is to be suspected that the essentially repressed element is always what is feminine. This is confirmed by the fact that women as well as men admit more easily to experiences with women than with men. What men essentially repress is the paederastic element.3