(psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which you flee from reality by assuming a more infantile state

Usage examples of regression.

To the extent that either attempts to escape the flatland interlocking order at all, they do so by regression to agrarian alchemy, magico-mythic animism, astrology, horticultural planting mythology, or foraging human-nature indissociationall of which is based, of course, on the new physics.

Oblomovkan childhood involves a psychological regression to a carefree, presexual existence where libidinal pleasure is derived primarily, if not exclusively, from the ingestion of food and drink.

This is why the Church, beginning around the sixteenth century, was involved in a war on two fronts: fighting regression to magic, and fighting supersession by science.

Shockingly it seemed as though her animalistic regression momentarily frightened the dogs, and they each backed off long enough to let Rayven gain her feet.

For you, it could be astrology, numerology, yoga, dance, dowsing, meditation, astral projection, hypnotic regression, dreamwork, breathwork or religion.

Genuine mystical or contemplative experiences, for example, are seen as a regression or throwback to infantile states of narcissism, oceanic adualism, indissociation, and even primitive autism.

To the extent that either attempts to escape the flatland interlocking order at all, they do so by regression to agrarian alchemy, magico-mythic animism, astrology, horticultural planting mythology, or foraging human-nature indissociationall of which is based, of course, on the new physics.

These theorists, as we will see in detail, end up unknowingly recommending pure regression as our salvation.

A week in Vegas is like stumbling into a Time Warp, a regression to the late fifties.

Thus the cure: regression in service of a higher reintegrationa regression that allows evolution to move forward more harmoniously by healing and wholing a previously alienated holon.

I understand the degrees of progression and regression as they relate to random variables in bifurcations of a triple fork.

And in this confusionthis pre/trans confusionall true critical edge was lost, because the cure for the actual dissociations that had indeed beset modernity was mistakenly thought to be a regression to a state prior to all differentiation whatsoever.

The documented instances of technological regression on the Australian mainland, and the example of Tasmania, suggest that the limited repertoire of Native Australians compared with that of peoples of other continents may stem in part from the effects of isolation and population size on the development and maintenance of technology—like those effects on Tasmania, but less extreme.

This elicits the same emotive intensity as in regression or in Mack's abductee hypnosis.

If pipes were substitutes for feeding bottles at moments of regression into infancy, then a B-stick was a kind of teething ring.