(psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness

Usage examples of resistance.

They could never have got aboard in the face of resistance by the whole crew.

We also know that Abies disassociated himself from the White Aryan Resistance.

The resistance to acceleration must be tremendous, for the accelerometer needle registered zero.

Politicians are so apt to take the line of least resistance, and when thousands of votes of small landowners are to be won through the advocacy of an exemption, exemptions there will be.

The afrit has been dealt with, and much of the Resistance is dead too, it seems.

You see the amperage will be exceptionally high, and my batteries will have a large amount of reserve, with little internal resistance.

In such a position a man has not the courage to insult a woman, and, instead of answering, I set to work at once, without meeting even with that show of resistance which sharpens the appetite.

And, we might also ask, why the tangential resistance to the comet of Encke should not also produce a retrograde motion in the apsides of the orbit, instead of diminishing its period?

The 2d and 7th British Armoured Divisions, the 6th Australian Division, the New Zealand brigade group, soon to become a division, with perhaps one or two British brigades, comprising not more than 40,000 to 45,000 men, should suffice to overpower the remaining Italian resistance and to take Benghazi.

Because of possible differences in blood chemistry and in ignorance of his native bacteria, I depended almost wholly upon asepsis and his natural resistance.

While the continent of Europe and Africa yielded, without resistance, to the Barbarians, the British island, alone and unaided, maintained a long, a vigorous, though an unsuccessful, struggle, against the formidable pirates, who, almost at the same instant, assaulted the Northern, the Eastern, and the Southern coasts.

With their retreat thus cut off, with General Platt attacking from the north, harassed by patriots, machine-gunned and bombed from the air, the Italian resistance could not last long.

Despite my weariness I considered attempting resistance with the males, then dismissed the notion as being what was expected.

There are three key variables that will define this struggle, variables that act in the realm between the common and the singular, between the axiomatic of command and the self-identification of the subject, and between the production of subjectivity by power and the autonomous resistance of the subjects themselves.

In the north, the Kurdish Baban Dynasty emerged and organized Kurdish resistance.