All 4 Uses of
repress
in
The Sunlight Dialogues
- And yet sometimes ...You see, a megalomaniac, as psychologists tell us, is a man who has done a good deal of repressing—pretending to himself that he does not actually feel what he actually feels, if you see what I mean.†
Chpt 5
- Isn't it just possible that the racist's view of the Negro as a person may be nothing other than a megalomaniac projection—that is to say, a feeling of righteousness in one's superiority to a person onto whom one has projected all one has had to repress to become what one has become.†
Chpt 5
- I mean: our civilization is built on work, and to do well in it we must repress our desire to loll about.†
Chpt 5 *
- We project, so to speak, this repression into the inherent nature (as we think) of the Negro.†
Chpt 5
Definitions:
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(1)
(repress) to hold something back
or:
to subjugate (oppress or hold others down) -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
In psychology, repress has a more specialized meaning where something is put out of one's consciousness. For example, someone with repressed anger may not consciously realize they are angry, yet the anger still affects their mind and body.