Question

During a grade school field trip, ryan and his friends were running down a hill when he stepped on a snake. he was unharmed but shaken by the experience. when one of his friends mentioned the incident months later, ryan could not remember running down the hill that day. sigmund freud would say that this is an example of:

Answer 1

Sigmund Freud would say that this is an example of "repression".

Repression is a psychological defense component that happens when a man reliably pushes away an especially agonizing or aggravating idea, memory or want trying to keep his or her brain in a more pleasurable, less on edge state. The phenomenon was first found and hypothesized by the well known psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud.