Repressed names encode both the wish to forget and the wish to remember

Evidence

By way of this compromise, the names, remembered and forgotten, remind Freud “just as much of what I wanted to forget as of what I wanted to remember.” The names, he continues, also “show me that my intention to forget something was neither a complete success nor a complete failure” (4/G15). — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 656