The conditions under which a representation reappears in consciousness determine whether its return is called an “immediate” or a “mediate” reproduction (cf. Boudewijnse, et al. 1999: 181; 185, ff.). An immediate reproduction occurs when a hitherto inhibited representation strives back up into consciousness under its own power, as it were, as soon as the occluding factor has been neutralized (SW IV: 376). Herbart writes: