rapy now had to be very different. Its purpose was no longer to abreact an effect which had traveled on the wrong lines but to uncover repressions and replace them with acts of judgement which may result in either an acceptance or the condemning of what had formerly been turned away from. With all the new aspects of therapy and everything, instead of calling his method of investigation and treatment catharsis, but psycho-analysis.7 The basis of psychoanalysis is that the unconscious mind determines behavior. Freud felt that unconsciousness is a regular and inevitable phase in the process that is part of mental activity. He said that every mental act begins as an unconscious one, and it might remain so or evolve into consciousness according as it meets with resistance or not.8 Repressed feelings can cause personality disorders, self-destructive behavior and physical symptoms such as blindness or paralysis.9 Repression is termed as the power which makes it nearly impossible for women, and also to a lesser degree for men, to enjoy undisguised obscenity. In it, is distinguished the same psychical process which keeps whole complexes of impulses away from their consciousness in cases of serious illness. Freud proposed this as the main factor in the causation of what are known as psychoneuroses.10 One of his techniques was called "free association." In his practice he wanted the patient to relax and talk about whatever came to mind. He would listen for clues to his patients innermost feelings. Freud developed several other methods to bring these feelings to the conscious awareness. He would also interpret dreams as another way to understand unconscious memories. Free association and the related art of interpretation helped psycho-analysis succeed in one thing. This was that now ...
