The manifest of a complex in Psychoanalysis usually take the form of prolonged time for processing of a verbal stimulate. Then by digging into the web of association of that verb, the analyst would eventually uncover the repressed memory that is thought to be a root cause of current psychological problem. It seems to assume that the added emotional load onto a verb related to a repressed incident would necessarily increase the time of processing of that word. So ‘neutral’ word is assumed to process faster than emotionally loaded words.
However, by the theory of Psychoanalysis lied down by Freud, the nature of repression is just the word ‘repression’. Any emotionally unpleasant memory would attempt to hide certain verbal association in the mind, therefore it would slow down the processing of stimulate associated with this incident. Freud doesn’t seem to provide a method on how to overcome this repression(it appear that repression could overcome magically at some instance during the therapy). I would like to provide a method here to circumvent the unconscious block without directly attacking it.
My thought is following the direction given by this blog post. The idea behind it is although it can hide the association, but it can never hide the fact it has attempting to hide the association, otherwise it wouldn’t be termed repression at all. So by looking specially for those who take longest to process and elicit strongest unconscious bodily reaction like increase of pulse, sweating, dilution of pupil, subtle change of tone of voice, the therapist could target the specific verbal stimulate that seems to be lying at the heart of the matter. Now, that is not the end of the story, the therapy session need to uncover more of the nature of the block and the reason behind the block. How?
As the therapist now have the target stimulate, s/he can paired with other ‘neutral’ stimulate, and apply the similar methodology to detect the association that unconscious try to hide. For instance, if the focus verbal stimulate is ‘Shoe’, the s/he can pair it with ‘Man,Woman,Food,Drink,Doll….etc’. If then s/he notices that it take longest for the client to process the pair of ‘Shoe, Woman’, the therapy then can use that as the focus stimulate to look for other association that unconscious attempt to hide, and s/he can repeat the process until it has reached the limit of Short Term Memory(7 items). For instance, s/he arrived at something
like ‘Shoe, Woman, Closet, Masturbate, Guilty, Parent, Punishment’, then the therapist would made up different stories using these verbal stimulate, and notices the reaction of client to each of them. Therefore now the therapist has a much better pictures of the psychological operation of the client without the client fighting the complex alone. My concern is also, sometimes it maybe better for the therapist to understand the client better before digging into his/her past because the therapist could planned for what would happen when his/her client face different complexes.
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