All 4 Uses
repress
in
The Sunlight Dialogues
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- 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.†
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- 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 as in: she repressed a laugh) to hold something back (not allow it to be expressed)
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(2)
(repress as in: repressed the rebellion) to forcefully subdue or prevent actions by others
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(3)
(repress as in: repressed the memory) suppress from conscious awareness a memory, thought, feeling or desire
- (4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)