Richard Perozich

We are caught in precisely the scenario Freud described in his 1914 essay “Remembering, Repeating, and Working Through”. The patient who neurotically and destructively continues to enact certain patterns of thought and action is repeating what he cannot remember clearly: some trauma is buried in his psyche, and it is evident only by and in his repetitive actions, which are a disguised form of remembering. A psychoanalysis helps him work through that trauma, ending the cycles of repetition by allowing him to remember the original event, helping to free the patient to move forward.