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US
/ɹiˈpɹɛʃən/
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[ UK /ɹɪpɹˈɛʃən/ ]
[ UK /ɹɪpɹˈɛʃən/ ]
NOUN
- (psychiatry) the classical defense mechanism that protects you from impulses or ideas that would cause anxiety by preventing them from becoming conscious
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a state of forcible subjugation
the long repression of Christian sects -
the act of repressing; control by holding down
his goal was the repression of insolence
How To Use repression In A Sentence
- Pollution control work, then, is typical of the many areas of social control characterized by goals of regulation rather than repression.
- A reputation for tolerance and civil liberties had been replaced by violence and repression.
- The last forty pages of the publication are dedicated to the numerous journalists who have fallen the victims of repression around the world.
- Some critics will accuse Duffy of acting as apologist for a campaign of violent repression, but this would scarcely be fair: “confronted by the sanctified savageries of the Tudor age, it would be a hard heart that withheld pity from the victims or felt no indignation against the perpetrators”. A Not so Bloody Mary ?
- He offers an impressive specification of the role that disgust plays in Freud's evolutionary theory of repression.
- And this means that the theories of universally acting psychical repression, of the unconscious, of the endopsychic censor, of the significance of resistance and amnesia, of the employment of highly complicated and phantastic symbolism, of the manifestations of sexuality and so forth have been made use of in a high-handed, uncalled for, unnecessary and unscientific manner to prove the truth of the thesis with which the author set out upon his journey. The Journal of Abnormal Psychology
- It allows him to present his laddish repartee as a courageous swipe against repression.
- Note 9: Derepression carries its own specialized meanings in Jungian psychology and genetics, but my usage will be readily distinguishable from that employed by those other specialties. Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583
- His condemnation of violence and wealth, of government repression and church hypocrisy, brought him administrative pinpricks and excommunication.
- In that context, I found phrases like these kind of disconcerting and hard to read: the passions of his bewildered heart … a maelstrom of melancholicaly erupted emotion … causing a bit of the guilt to spatter through his brow … that would never permit his repression, never allow for nothing short of predetermined apocalyptic salvation. Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Frank Murdock’s Review Forum