Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

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Fragment ID: 7148

Sigmund Freud [1]

You had once written that things rejected from the conscious parts go down into the subconscient physical. Is Freud’s theory of suppression somewhat similar to this?

Freud has observed the fact, but he has built on it a number of theories that are either unsound or exaggerated.

2 August 1933