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Repression was the first defense mechanism that Freud discovered, and arguably the most important. Repression is an unconscious mechanism employed by the ego to keep disturbing or threatening thoughts from becoming conscious.  At some point, Freud moved away from hypnosis, and towards urging his patients to remember the past in a conscious state, “the very difficulty and laboriousness of the process led Freud to a crucial insight”. The intensity of his struggles to get his patients to recall past memories led him to conclude that “there was some force that prevented them from becoming conscious and compelled them to remain unconscious...pushed the pathogenetic experiences in question out of consciousness. I gave the name of repression to this hypothetical process”. Freud would later call the theory of repression "the corner-stone on which the whole structure of psychoanalysis rests" ("On the History of the Psycho-Analytic Movement"). Repression and suppression are ...

Attraction is beyond our will or ideas sometimes. Juliette Binoche Why are we attracted to certain people and not others?  Why do our friends tend to be very similar to each other?  And what causes us to decide on a mate?  Many of these questions relate to social psychology in that society's influence and our own beliefs and traits play an important role.  Basically, there are four different types of attraction, starting with Interpersonal Attraction , relating to the force that draws people together.  The three more familiar types are Physical Attraction , the attraction to another person based on their looks, Social Attraction being the attraction to another's personality, and Task Attraction , meaning you are attracted to a person's abilities and dependability.  These four aspects are the basic ideas behind how people come to meet. Main Factors We will review briefly several especially powerful factors of attraction that researchers suggest: personal app...