Question

Breuer observed that every time he traced a symptom to its origin, it was usually a traumatic experience that caused physical symptoms. these are known as ____ ideas.

Answer 1

I believe the answer is: Pathogenic ideas

Pathogenic ideas refers to the ideas that are forced out of our mind as a result of self-defense mechanism to prevent us from having mental breakdown.
This process often happened after people experience a very traumatic experience such as being raped, murder of the loved ones, war, etc.