Representations oppose each other by degrees, as we see in the case of colors and tones (PsW: 135–6). This has important implications.  Since the inhibitions immediately result from representations’ mutual opposition, these inhibitions, too, are graduated, as are, consequently, the gradual dimming of the (represented) object and the transformation of a representation into a striving-to-represent: all these phenomena are to be thought of as graduated over a spectrum (PsW: 136). In short, the degree of opposition among representations sets one of two conditions for a degree of dimming. The second condition is the intensity with which each representation initially appears in the psyche. That is, representations  