psychological repression
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keeping out from consciousness ideas or impulses that are unacceptable to it
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Vinony's link graph records 393 inbound references to psychological repression, and connects out to defence mechanism, id, ego and super-ego and Sigmund Freud.
Vinony files it under Defence mechanisms, Psychoanalytic terminology and Psychodynamics.
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Research
2,066 papers- Psychoanalysis.Progress in neurology and psychiatry · 1967
- Psychoanalysis.Progress in neurology and psychiatry · 1968
- Dermatologic disorders.Psychosomatics · 1982
- Personality.Annual review of psychology · 1971
- Repression. I.Psychoanalytic review · 2000
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Encyclopedic overview
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." According to psychoanalytic theory, repression plays a major role in many mental illnesses, and in the psyche of the average person.
American psychologists began to attempt to study repression in the experimental laboratory around 1930. However, psychoanalysts were at first uninterested in attempts to study repression in laboratory settings, and later came to reject them. Most psychoanalysts concluded that such attempts misrepresented the psychoanalytic concept of repression.
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