"Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways."
— Sigmund Freud
Unexpressed Emotions Will Never Die They
Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.
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The idea is consistent with the core argument of Studies on Hysteria (1895), which Sigmund Freud co-authored with Josef Breuer, but this exact formulation does not appear in that work. In Studies on Hysteria, Freud and Breuer demonstrated through case studies that repressed memories and emotions — cut off from conscious expression — generate somatic symptoms. The famous formula they used was that "hysterics suffer mainly from reminiscences." The paraphrase as given entered popular circulation as a condensed summary of that clinical finding and of Freud's later theory of the return of the repressed.
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Attributed, paraphrased from Studies on Hysteria (1895)
