The Ego Strikes Back: “The Return of the Repressed” [AUDIOSTR]

Kenneth Wapnick, Ph.D.

Freud’s concept of “the return of the repressed” is the basis for this workshop, which deals with the fundamental ego dynamic of convincing us that guilt is horrifically real, and then “protecting” us from its inevitable punishment by counseling us to deny or repress its existence, and then ensuring its survival by projecting it onto others. This returns to awareness the guilt that had been repressed, which is now seen in the world external to the mind. All this is undone by our looking with Jesus at what the ego has wrought, thus undoing repression and projection by recognizing that the guilt we see in others is what we have first seen in ourselves, which is itself unreal. We therefore are free to choose whether to remain in hell or return to Heaven with all the Sonship: