"The Return of the repressed"

Freuds concept that "The return of the repressed" is to explain the existence of neurotic. The is an unconscious thought/feeling would constantly press for access to the executive fictions of the mind in order to be discharged. The Ego would be on constant alert to prevent the direct expression of the forbidden idea but the idea would find a disguise and surface as a symptom. Freuds concept might be useful for understanding horror because it relates to one of the myths of horror which is Dr Jeckll and hyde - The secret madness within the mind which many horror films have been based upon and Freuds concept kind of captures this because in horrors the villain has a secret madness or difficult emotions such as anger or hatred in their head of things that have happened in there life or things that changed which they cannot hide or resolve and end up turning mad and doing horrible stuff. Also because of these things anger/hatred or wanting to hurt people start to be revealed by the villian doing certain stuff such as follow the victim and the people the victim knows till the thought/feeling would not go and would end up in the villain hurting/killing a victim. This concept is also useful for understanding horror because most horrors are about what is going on in the villains mind and why the villann is doing such things.