That word 'samurai' alone reverberated through his body. Saegusa, Lord of Izu, continued shouting, but Gennosuke did not attend. Do not hesitate! If you are a samurai, you must carry out the duty of a samurai!' Takamasa Saegusa: 'Fujiki Gennosuke! It is the way of the samurai to take the head of the defeated enemy on the battleground. For Gennosuke, Irako Seigen was pride itself. Such an insult to Irako Seigen was unwarranted. Cut off his head immediately, and stick it on a pike!' For that reason, our lord had already decided to subject him to tu-uchi before long. “Takamasa Saegusa: 'Seigen, a mere member of the Toudouza, had the effrontery to sully the sacred dueling ground. Rebuilding Shattered Lives: Treating Complex PTSD and Dissociative Disorders Although Freud was discussing the trauma produced by intense intrapsychic conflict, clinical experience has shown that actual traumatic events that have been dissociated are often repeated and reexperienced.” The most perceptive tenet of Freud’s theory is that previously dissociated events are actually reexperienced as current reality rather than remembered as occurring in the past. He theorized that this "compulsion to repeat" served a need to rework and achieve mastery over the experience and that it perhaps had an underlying biologic basis as well. If one understands repression as the process in which overwhelming experiences are forgotten, distanced, and dissociated, Freud posited that these experiences are likely to recur in the mind and to be reexperienced. He is obliged to repeat the repressed material as a contemporary experience instead of remembering it as something in the past. The patient cannot remember the whole of what is repressed in him, and what he cannot remember may be precisely the essential part of it. In his paper, "Beyond the Pleasure Principle," Freud (1920/ 1955) described how repressed (and dissociated) trauma and instinctual conflicts can become superimposed on current reality. Freud's concept of the “repetition compulsion” is enormously helpful in understanding how dissociated events are later reexperienced. The central principle is that dissociated experiences often do not remain dormant. The reexperiencing of previously dissociated traumatic events presents in a variety of complex ways. “THE RETURN OF THE REPRESSED: RELIVING DISSOCIATED EXPERIENCES
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