l depression. The second state is when the mind enters what Freud calls "self reproach." The characteristic of the two as Freud points out, are quite similar and can easily be confused.
Freud remarks that although these two states involve great departures from the normal attitude on life, "it never has occurred to us" to regard it as a morbid condition. Through Freud's psychoanalysis, research has shown that when the mind enters the second state of "self reproach", repressed feelings, which were created during infancy, determine the degree of withdrawal the mind will undergo. Freud says that these repressed feelings are very often manifested within the unconscious during the early developmental state o
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