Note 24 — PART I (continued 2)

[German: Zurückdrängen = to force back. This word is stronger than unterdrücken = to press under, which we translate by suppress (not a technical term); zurückdrängen contains already the drängen of verdrängen, the technical word used by Freud to denote the strongest pressure of all, repression. In the examples discussed here, the agency withholding the intention from expression may be either conscious or unconscious (groups one, two, and three, according to the degree of unconsciousness); Freud does not use verdrängen = “repression,” the technical word for unconscious agency only, here, but one very near to it in sense.—Tr.]