Repression (psychoanalysis)
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Psychological repression, or simply repression, is the psychological act of excluding desires and impulses (wishes, fantasies or feelings) from one's consciousness and attempting to hold or subdue them in the subconscious. Since the popularization of Sigmund Freud's work in psychoanalysis, repression is popularly thought to be a common defense mechanism.
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- Repression
- Sexual repression
- Defence mechanism
- Motivation as a term related to desire
- Narcissistic defence sequences
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