Displacement work

This article deals with the concept of psychology; for the physical work of volume change see volume work .

As displacement work in classical is psychoanalysis of the mental effort called that in the displacement of representative offices into the unconscious must be provided. It is spent as long as the idea remains suppressed. This can be for life.

According to the psychoanalyst view, repression is an active process. In contrast to forgetting, repressed representations do not fade, but remain in their original form and, above all, with their original amount of affect . The postulated mechanism of repression just makes them no longer conscious.

The size of the work of repression depends, among other things, on the amount of affect . The higher the affect, the more difficult it is to suppress it.