The mix represented that part of the patient seeking relief from painful symptoms but also an active desire to avoid painful, repressed feelings.

At which point they surrender to their long repressed feelings.

Emotions are heightened, repressed feelings and secret desires awakened, and inhibitions weakened, turning what once were friendly competitions into bitter rivalries, romantic rivals into violent enemies, and so on.

Empirical evidence suggests that unconscious phenomena include repressed feelings, automatic skills, subliminal perceptions, thoughts, habits, and automatic reactions, and possibly also complexes, hidden phobias and desires.