Repressed Memory - History

History

The concept of repressed memory originated with Sigmund Freud in his 1896 essay Zur Ätiologie der Hysterie ("On the etiology of hysteria"). Freud abandoned the concept sometime between 1897 and 1905, replacing it during 1920–1923 with his impulse-based concept of ego, super-ego, and id.

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