Forgetting or inability to recollect memory can occur as the result of many different types of actions, for example, one may not have the correct cue for retrieval. However, there are some arguments that forgetting is an intentional act and that, in order to forget something, one must make a conscious effort to do so -- memory repression. We will discuss the reasoning and consider a brief overview of the topic with ideas that support and ideas go against such a concept.