All 19 Uses of
repress
in
Sophie's World
- We may repress our desires.†
Chpt 30
- This thought was on course for a frontal collision with her superego, and was so monstrous an idea that she immediately repressed it, Freud tells us.†
Chpt 30
- He reserved the term 'unconscious' for things we have repressed.†
Chpt 30
- Whatever is repressed in this way will try of its own accord to reenter consciousness.†
Chpt 30
- When Freud was in America in 1909 lecturing on psychoanalysis, he gave an example of the way this repression mechanism functions.†
Chpt 30
- He is now repressed, and I can continue my lecture.†
Chpt 30
- But in order that the disturbance may not be repeated, in case the man who has just been thrown out attempts to force his way back into the room, the gentlemen who have executed my suggestion take their chairs to the door and establish themselves there as a resistance, to keep up the repression.†
Chpt 30
- Now, if you transfer both locations to the psyche, calling this con-sciousness, and the outside the unconscious, you have a tolerably good illustration of the process of repression.'†
Chpt 30
- At least, that's the way it is with repressed thoughts and urges.†
Chpt 30
- We live under the constant pressure of repressed thoughts that are trying to fight their way up from the unconscious.†
Chpt 30
- In other words, we accidentally say or do things that we once tried to repress.†
Chpt 30
- The little girls were duly instructed that on no account were they to refer to the bishop's nose, since children often blurt out spontaneous remarks about people because their repressive mechanism is not yet developed.†
Chpt 30
- When we project, we transfer the characteristics we are trying to repress in ourselves onto other people.†
Chpt 30
- Frequently there is a particular experience which the person is desperately trying to repress.†
Chpt 30
- And although this censorship, or repression mechanism, is considerably weaker when we are asleep than when we are awake, it is still strong enough to cause our dreams to distort the wishes we cannot acknowledge.†
Chpt 30
- Freud believed that the dream was a "disguised fulfillment of a repressed wish."
Chpt 30 *repressed = something held back
- But exactly what we have repressed can have changed considerably since Freud was a doctor in Vienna.†
Chpt 30
- Freud himself did not claim to have discovered phenomena such as repression, defense mechanisms, or rationalizing.†
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- Could there be something she was trying to repress?†
Chpt 31
Definition:
-
(repress) to hold something back
or:
to subjugate (oppress or hold others down)