Crossword clues for repression
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Repression \Re*pres"sion\ (r?-pr?sh"?n), n. [Cf. F. r['e]pression.]
The act of repressing, or state of being repressed; as, the repression of evil and evil doers.
That which represses; check; restraint.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., noun of action from repress (v.), or else from Medieval Latin repressionem (nominative repressio), noun of action from past participle stem of Latin reprimere. Psychological sense is from 1908; biochemical sense is from 1957.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of repressing; state of being repressed. 2 The involuntary rejection from consciousness of painful or disagreeable ideas, memories, feelings, or impulses.
WordNet
n. a state of forcible subjugation; "the long repression of Christian sects"
(psychiatry) the classical defense mechanism that protects you from impulses or ideas that would cause anxiety by preventing them from becoming conscious
the act of repressing; control by holding down; "his goal was the repression of insolence"
Wikipedia
"Répression" is the second studio disc by the French hard rock/metal band Trust. It was released in 1980 (in France) and was dedicated to Bon Scott, the recently deceased lead singer of AC/DC; the English version was released to other parts of the world later in the year.
American thrash metal band Anthrax covered two of the album's songs; "Antisocial" on their 1988 album State of Euphoria and "Sects" on their 1991 album Attack of the Killer B's.
__NOTOC__ "Repression" is the 150th episode of the science fiction television series Star Trek: Voyager, the fourth episode of the seventh (and final) season of the series. The storyline revisits the potential for Starfleet and Maquis conflict explored in "Worst Case Scenario" at the end of season three. A series of attacks against former Maquis crew members baffles the Voyager senior staff. This episode explores mind control triggered by a subliminal message and the loyalties of crew members. The friendship between Commander Tuvok and Captain Janeway ultimately overcomes a fanatic's ability to invoke repressed conditioning. A recurring theme is Tuvok's "hunches", which he can neither explain nor ignore. Another feature of this episode is the Vulcan mind meld being used to force or invoke uncharacteristic behaviour. It is unclear how many of the former Maquis crew members on Voyager had been exposed to the fanatic's mind control techniques. This may be a rare instance of a forced mind meld creating abherrant behaviour in the victim.
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.