Ray’s Response

 

In the Remembering, repeating, and working-through, Freud wrote about the passive hypnosis is no longer clinically effective. The goal of this effort is to remember, “to fill in gaps in memory and to overcome resistances due to repression”. He talked about the phantasies, processes of references, emotional impulses, and thought connections. It remembered, but it was never conscious. Then, he mentioned about repetitions. The patient cannot remember the thing that they have forgotten, but they can act on it. “What interests us most of all is naturally the relation of this compulsion to repeat to the transference and to resistance”. It let me recall a traumatic experience about memorizing scene text. As a non-native speaker of English, when I got texts, it was a disaster. I tried to memorize it, but the recall experience was too stressful to remember it with the brain resisted. After that, I realized that I should repeat ‘100’ times in one sentence while walking on the street. This was not a waste of time when people hanging out after dinner. After repeating several times, it let the conscious change to the unconscious. Also, I changed the environment, before I wanted to finish the memorizing task, I stayed in my room and loudly spoke, and after 2 hours, I could not memorize anything. It wasted time and I haven’t done the task. Although it was not a secret trauma experience, it also should adapt to the environment with repetition.

 

In the Introduction, Cathy’s opinions about trauma experience cannot be recalled completely. This experience also can be a part of the process. “The ability to recover the past is thus closely and paradoxically tied up, in trauma, with the inability to have access to it”.