(psychiatry) the classical defense mechanism that protects you from impulses or ideas that would cause anxiety by preventing them from becoming conscious

Usage examples of repression.

The collective oppression of women since the collapse of the great pre-historic matriarchies at the close of pre-literate times reflects the collective state of the repression of the archetypal Anima in men.

The fear of death which plays such a large role in the repressions of modern society is deeply and inextricably intertwined with the collective repression of the archetypal Great Mother.

Eco camps would seize most immediately upon the repressions and exclusionary practices that reason could, and often did, bring in its wake.

Yet another impediment to the legal repression of any cruelty pertaining to animal experimentation is one which we all deplore, even though no remedy appears in sight.

Those standards consequently encourage the retreat from reality and the generating of neuroses, without achieving any surplus of cultural gain by this excess of sexual repression.

Either the Parlementaires would provoke the government into drastic repression or the Parlements would yield to more genuinely representative institutions.

A lot of the younger, more radical psychologists held that sexual repression, or all-out sublimation even, did no permanent harm when practiced occasionally.

Again, each species has its trials which appear in time to moderate its surplusage, and Fabre expounds for us, with a stern philosophy, the terrible devices by which this repression is effected.

The transnational corporation addresses with different methods and degrees of exploitation and repression each of the ethnic groups of workers-variously of European and African descent and from different Amerindian groups.

At the same time he took to hobnobbing with radicals, testing his capacity for drink, and generally unbottling his long-held repressions.

Later, repression extends to thoughts and memories, as well as to perceptions of the external world, that tend to evoke undesired feelings.

It is on the look-out for an opportunity of being activated, and when that happens it succeeds in sending into consciousness a disguised and unrecognisable substitute for what has been repressed, and to this there soon become attached the same feelings of unpleasure which it was hoped had been saved by the repression.

Even the French Calvinists, in their books dedicated to liberty, referred to the Anabaptists as seditious rebels worthy of the severest repression.

His name is worth remembering, for to this Richard Martin belongs the honour of being one of the first men in any land who attempted to secure some repression of cruelty to animals through the condemnation of the law.

However, deep hermeneutics maintains that once the person loosens the repression barrier, exposes this deeper truth, and acknowledges it, then a certain liberation is gained, a liberation from the distortions, lies, and delusions that were constructed to hide the truth.