Freud - The Return of the Repressed.

This is the process where elements that have been repressed in our subconscious reappear. Freud states that everything we've ever known and seen we remember, even if we have forgotten it. For example, every second of your life is stored in your brain, but not all is visible to you on a daily basis. But occasionally those things we have forgotten, and that are stored in our subconscious, suddenly return into are conscious state of mind.



This relates to the genre of horror. Because it is very similar to the idea that something returns from the past, which is considered to be one of the three stories that all horror films are based upon. This idea comes from the famous novel of Dracula. Although in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, we see this idea of the return of the repressed, because repressed in Dr.Jekyll is Mr. Hyde.


 Freud also states that we have to represee primal urges in order to take our place in culture. These urges may include rage, anger, murderous impulses etc.For example, Freud believes that we all wish to rape, hurt and kill people, in our subconscious, but we choose not to, because we no that it would be wrong to do so.