It is conceivable, however, that the results of analysis may be viewed differently in the case of a child as opposed to an adult. In the case of reality judgments, as with condemning judgments, it is the pleasure principle that sits in the dock. As Freud wrote in "Formulations on the Two Principles of Mental Functioning" (1911b): "The place of repression, which excluded from cathexis as productive of unpleasure some of the emerging ideas, was taken by an impartial passing of judgment, which had to decide whether a given idea was true or false -that is, whether it was in agreement with reality or not -the decision being determined by making a comparison with the memory-traces of reality" (p. Condemning judgments reproduce on the ethical level what judgments in general effect on the intellectual level. What, then, is the role of the condemning judgment? If we wish to see it not just as the conscious form of the operation of repression, we need to emphasize its adjudicatory aspect, which involves a presentation of conflicting elements and a decision -a negative one, in this case. The work of analysis, in contrast, can lead to an appropriate application of these instincts.
But above all, repression is posited as the result of the time lag between the capacities of the immature ego and its instincts. Instinctual impulses may also have been liberated and can oppose the former. 53) in the context of a crucial question: If psychoanalysis makes possible the lifting of repression, what happens to the instincts that are liberated in the process? Freud's response is nuanced and consists in emphasizing that other, more conventional Sigmund Freud raised the issue of condemning judgments in "Five Lectures on Psycho-Analysis" (1910a, p. It is in fact the most highly elaborated one, since it involves neither flight nor a refusal to give access to the intruding element, but, on the contrary, since it is a judgment, acknowledging the existence of the impulse that will later be condemned. Condemning judgment is one of the possible vicissitudes of a repressed instinctual impulse.
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