…or some part of a script, living freely in the mind hidden from one’s view until one’s parents or neighbors or acquaintances reveal they viewed a film or suffered from the problem or the individual him or her self recollects a conversation about someone’s inability to sleep…
What is your problem, Mr.
Cavender? Insomnia.
How's that? Insomnia.
I can't sleep.
I haven't slept in months.
Well, lots of people claim that.
Say they never sleep.
Not for a minute.
Well, it's not really true, of course, you know. Alfred Hitchcock, Insomnia
Later writers, exploring the gradual emergence of unconscious material, would note how 'the direct, unmitigated expression of a repressed semantic element would be highly "ego-dystonic", and it is considered more "ego-syntonic
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