CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- Part One. The Theory -- Chapter I. REPRESSION AND DEFENSE -- Repression as Amnesia -- "Defense" as a Synonym for "Repression" -- Other Defenses as Forms of Repression -- CONVERSION -- PROJECTION -- SUBSTITUTION (DISPLACEMENT, TRANSPOSITION) -- ISOLATION -- Dropping of "Defense" from Freud's Usage -- "Repression" in 1915 -- "Repression" and "Defense" in 1926 -- REACTION-FORMATION -- REVERSAL -- UNDOING -- ISOLATION -- "Repression" and "Defense" after 1926 -- The Inseparability of Repression and Most Forms of Defense -- Summary -- Chapter II. REPRESSIVE AND "NONREPRESSIVE" DEFENSES -- Repressive Defenses -- "Nonrepressive" Defenses -- Summary -- Chapter III. INHIBITORY DEFENSES -- Emotional Inhibition -- Ego-Restriction or Behavioral Inhibition -- Summary -- Chapter IV. RESISTANCE -- Resistance and Repression -- Resistance as Behavior -- Resistance as a Hypothetical Force -- Anticathexis, Resistance, and Repression -- Resistance as Unconscious Process -- Variations in Resistance -- Types of Resistance -- REPRESSION-RESISTANCE -- TRANSFERENCE-RESISTANCE -- RESISTANCE FROM THE GAIN OF ILLNESS -- RESISTANCE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS AND RESISTANCE FROM A SENSE OF GUILT -- Resistance Due to "Adhesiveness of the Libido"? -- Summary -- Chapter V. SUCCESSFUL DEFENSES -- "Successful Repression" and "Successful Defense" -- "Destruction in the Id" -- Sublimation -- Repudiation or Condemnation -- The Absorption of Instincts -- Successful and Unsuccessful Defense in Normal Persons -- Summary -- Chapter VI. PRIMAL REPRESSION -- The Seduction Theory -- Development of the Concept -- Anxiety, Trauma, and Primal and Adult Repression -- Summary -- Chapter VII. THE MOTIVES OF REPRESSION AND DEFENSE -- Force and Counterforce in Freud's Early Theory -- Force and the Pregenital Sex Theory -- Force, Counterforce, and the Oedipus Complex.

Ego Instincts versus Sex Instincts -- Instinct versus Anticathexis -- INSTINCT -- ANTICATHEXIS -- The Motive of Anxiety -- THE FIRST ANXIETY THEORY -- THE 1926 CONCEPT OF ANXIETY -- The Motivation of Primal Repression -- Repressible Motives -- ANXIETY AND REPRESSION -- SEX AND REPRESSION -- HOSTILITY AND REPRESSION -- Summary -- Chapter VIII. REMOTENESS AND REPRESSION -- Defensive Misrepresentations as Remoteness -- Symptoms as Remote Expressions of Repressed Impulses -- Situational Remoteness -- Summary -- Part Two. The Theoretical and Observational Language -- Chapter IX. THE THEORETICAL LANGUAGE OF REPRESSION AND DEFENSE -- Chapter X. THE OBSERVATIONAL LANGUAGE OF REPRESSION AND DEFENSE -- Resistance as an Indicator of Repression -- INDICATORS OF REPRESSION-RESISTANCE -- INDICATORS OF TRANSFERENCE RESISTANCE -- RESISTANCE DUE TO SECONDARY GAIN OF ILLNESS -- RESISTANCE FROM A SENSE OF GUILT -- RESISTANCE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS -- Repressive Defense as an Indicator of Repression -- Affect Inhibition as an Indicator of Repression -- Ego-Restriction as an Indicator of Repression -- Remoteness as an Indicator of Repression -- SYMPTOMS -- SITUATIONAL REMOTENESS -- Observational Language and Primal Repression -- PRIMAL REPRESSION IN INFANCY -- PRIMAL REPRESSION IN LATER CHILDHOOD -- Observational Language and Successful Defense -- Chapter XI. CONCLUSIONS -- Research on Repression and Freud's Theory -- Measuring Repression -- Measures of Repression as Estimates of Illness and Therapeutic Effects -- Validating the Theory of Repression and Defense -- REFERENCES TO FREUD'S WRITINGS -- REFERENCES TO WORKS OF OTHER AUTHORS -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- Z.