Mrs. mcbride can't consciously recall how frequently she criticizes her children because it would be too anxiety-arousing to do so. sigmund freud would have suggested that her poor memory illustrates

He would suggested that her poor memory illustrates repression.
According to sigmund, a repression is a psychological attempt make by someone in order to achieve a certain positive feeling by putting a certain perception into subconscious thought. The concept of psychological repression is still debatable in modern psychological community these days because it possess very little cases.