Currency Suppression: Repression in Economics

Psychoanalysis and economics may seem like two vastly different fields at first glance. However, both fields have a common thread: instead of solving the problem itself, they try to control the effects that arise. This article aims to draw an analogy between Freud's concept of repression and currency suppression. According to Freud, our mind is not just composed of consciousness. A significant part of our thoughts and behaviors are influenced by unconscious processes that we are not aware of. One of these processes is repression; the pushing of thoughts and feelings that are difficult to accept, anxiety-provoking, or conflicting with self-perception into the unconscious. However, the repressed does not disappear. It just becomes invisible. After a while, it returns in different forms. Unmotivated anxieties, repetitive behaviors, dreams, or slips of the tongue are examples of this. According to Freud, these are the repressed thoughts and feelings re-emerging in an indirect way. In psychoanalysis, this is called a