Instead, they are caused by intrapsychic conflicts.
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For example, a patient may have an hysterical amnesia ( memory being an autonomous function ) because of intrapsychic conflict ( wishing not to remember because it is too painful ).
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An outdated explanation for the occurrence of speech errors is the one of Sigmund Freud, who assumed that speech errors are the result of an intrapsychic conflict of concurrent intentions . Virtually all speech errors [ are ] caused by the intrusion of repressed ideas from the unconscious into one s conscious speech output, Freud explained.
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Freud characterised how intrapsychic conflict among drive and superego ( wishes and guilt ) caused anxiety, and how that anxiety could lead to an inhibition of mental functions, such as intellect and speech . " Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety " was written in response to Otto Rank, who, in 1924, published " Das Trauma der Geburt " ( translated into English in 1929 as " The Trauma of Birth " ), analysing how art, myth, religion, philosophy and therapy were illuminated by separation anxiety in the " phase before the development of the Oedipus complex " ( p . 216 ) Freud's theories, however, characterized no such phase.