Repressing Memories and Photographer #10 Arthur Tress

"A repressed memory is the memory of a traumatic event unconsciously retained in the mind, where it is said to adversely affect conscious thought, desire, and action. It is common to consciously repress unpleasant experiences."

I took AS Psychology and really enjoyed it last year. We looked at a psychologist called Freud and his approaches to memories. His theory was this:

"Sigmund Freud emphasized the importance of the unconscious mind, and a primary assumption of Freudian theory is that the unconscious mind governs behavior to a greater degree than people suspect. Indeed, the goal of psychoanalysis is to make the unconscious conscious"

This has always interested me and yet the whole theory is quite bizarre. I wanted to look into how people view this. The way he believes our memories are misplaced within our unconsciousness and we have no choice or idea its happening.

Something shocking happens, and the mind pushes it into some inaccessible corner of the unconscious. Later, the memory may emerge into consciousness.



I started researching within this more and came across Dream Analysis and The Reality of Repressed Memories. I started to do some research into this and look deeper into it. Looking at dream analysis it really fascinated me. I love the idea that you can communicate what you see in your head and let someone analyse it and almost tell you what it means. I think this is quite a strange process and started looking for ways people are influenced by this. 

One way was a photographer who translated children's dreams in artwork through photography. The photographer Arthur Tress was found within my research. His work has an eerie feel and quite a chilling thought into the children dreams. 
His images are mostly black and white which give the scary feel. I also think the idea of him trying to recreate children's dreams a scary idea in itself. We cannot explain full what we are thinking as we all may have a different perception of the same thing. His idea of these dreams may be different to the actual dream and to someones perception. 
I love how some of the images are quite strange and almost represent the way children have these dreams which are completely unbelievable.  Yet the way some of the images almost represent the dreams or ideas adults can have the same thoughts that still can scare you no matter what your age. 



These are the images that I feel are the most effective out of them all: