Psychological repression

Psychological repression

The psychological attempt by an individual to repel its own desires and impulses towards pleasurable instincts

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psychological repression

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The psychological attempt by an individual to repel its own desires and impulses towards pleasurable instincts

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The active mental process of keeping out and ejecting, banishing from consciousness, ideas or impulses that are unacceptable to it.

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To put down and keep down by force any active general opposition or rebellion.

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