The term 'the return of the repressed' is a term derived from the practises of Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud. It suggests that an unconscious thought in a persons mind will continually find a way to be recognised, often in fictional forms, until it appears on the outside in behaviour or ideas. He also believed that dreams gave an insight into a persons unconscious desires.
This changed many of the ideas and conventions of horror films as people became more open to distressing ideas of films. It also made film makers give characters far fetched physcopathic desires, and could to some extent help them justify that these thoughts aren't ridiculous and people exprience them in their unconscious mind, until they can't help themselves from doing saddistic, cruel things to fund their desires. It stopped all characters in horror films from being monsters to become real people with disturbing inner thoughts, making horror films seem slightly more realistic, scaring audiences more than ever before.
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