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Noun Concept

Categories: All Wikipedia articles written in American English, Psychodynamics, Psychoanalytic terminology, Defence mechanisms

repression psychological repression Psychic repression Repression, Psychology

(psychiatry) the classical defense mechanism that protects you from impulses or ideas that would cause anxiety by preventing them from becoming conscious WordNet 3.0

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(psychiatry) the classical defense mechanism that protects you from impulses or ideas that would cause anxiety by preventing them from becoming conscious WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

Repression is a key concept of psychoanalysis, where it is understood as a defense mechanism that "ensures that what is unacceptable to the conscious mind, and would if recalled arouse anxiety, is prevented from entering into it." Wikipedia

keeping out from consciousness ideas or impulses that are unacceptable to it Wikidata

The psychological act of excluding desires and impulses OmegaWiki

The involuntary rejection from consciousness of painful or disagreeable ideas, memories, feelings, or impulses. Wiktionary

Involuntary rejection from consciousness. Wiktionary (translation)

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defense mechanism

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100 words of century

HAS KIND

primal repression

HAS INSTANCE

Repressió en la zona republicana durant la Guerra Civil espanyola