AN EXPERIMENTAL-STUDY ON THE THEORY OF RE SISTANCE AND REPRESSION

This study was carried out to test the Freudian concepts of resistance and repression. Ten subjects were presented a list of 50 word stimuli with the instruction to tell their very first association. Immediatel y afterwards and one week later, subjects were examined as to whether they could remember the associations produced. In line with Freudian c oncepts, associations to stimuli which were scaled as negative by the subjects were considered as negative and rook a longer time for produc tion. Additionally, associations to negative words were more likely to be forgotten both immediately after production and one week later.