... explanations, although many of the explanations have drawbacks, which leads to the constant development in the field. An early notion from Freud to explain infantile amnesia was that we just repress the memories from our childhood, as we feel guilty "What I have in mind is the peculiar amnesia which, in the case of most people, though by no means all, hides the earliest beginnings of their childhood up to their sixth or eight year." (Freud, 1905/1953). Therefore we are unable to retrieve those memories, especially from the anal and genital stages, as proposed by Freud. He suggested that we repress traumatic memories from infancy so we don't have to re-live them, as they were either embarrassing or we felt guilty of how we thought and behaved. There hasn't been a lot of evidence that can support Freud's repression theory, as it is quite basic. One bit of research that ...

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