When we evaluate a threat, decide escape is necessary, and set up a series of defenses to reduce the threat that we have judged as real. All this cannot be done unconsciously. Afterwards our plan require that we must forget we made it, so it seems to be external to our own intent; a happening beyond our state of mind, an outcome with a real effect on us, instead of one effected by us.
It is this quick forgetting of the part we play in making our "reality" that makes defenses seem to be beyond our control. But what we have forgot can be remembered, given willingness to reconsider the decision which is doubly shielded by oblivion. Not remembering is a sign that this decision still remains in force, as far as our desires are concerned. Defenses must make facts unrecognizable.
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