What is "regressing"

Usage examples of "regressing".

Even in psychoanalysis, for example, there is still the lingering notion that all mental identification involves temporary regression to the oral stage, because there is only one boundary recognized, and thus taking something across the mental boundary must be actually regressing to the physical oral boundary (any introjection must follow the same pathway as food, for there is only "the" boundary).

Emerson is not regressing to fulcrum-2 (biocentric immersion and nondifferentiation)!

The consciousness of those terrors can indeed be blotted out by regressing prior to the differentiation.

He suddenly sensed that by regressing he had initiated some process that was now beyond his conscious control, that some more primitive part of his mind was permanently in charge.

They were no longer regressing at the same rate, and he had an acute, intuitive intimation that Wendy Wright had experienced exactly this before her death.

He could see every detail of their structure, and the structure of their structure, regressing toward infinity, dwarfing him with detail.

One night Ayooba, who was regressing towards infancy faster than any of them, and had begun to suck his one moveable thumb, saw his mother looking down at him, offering him the delicate rice‑based sweets of her love.

Many societies had followed the Wilfrien, slowly regressing, even rejecting their technological society, seeking a more primitive existence in search of peace, withdrawing their participation and support from the Ring Empire.