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    repression


    1. amounts to nothing more than sexual repression


    2. repression, given any chance, will be refuted


    3. burned then the emotion should be allowed without repression, examination,


    4. That is saying quite a bit, a worse record than Communist Cuba, or Guatemala with its repression of Mayan Indians


    5. In El Salvador, the US military bombed the country for much of the 1980s, sent in advisers and a campaign of repression to break a protesters and a rebel movement


    6. Repression has a long history in America every bit as old in the nation


    7. Finally there was a campaign of repression, the Phoenix Program, approved by two presidents and maintained for over half a decade


    8. All these campaigns of repression either originated in Washington, or Washington worked side by side with campaigns of repression overseas from virtually the beginning


    9. The guerillas were wiped out in a short time, but the reign of repression lasted until 1983, after the failed Falklands War


    10. What: The conquest, occupation, and repression of independent island nations in the Pacific, and the repression of independence movements on Caribbean islands taken over from other colonial powers

    11. Even so, Carter's people pushed for reforms, only to see limited land reform combined with repression and death squads


    12. The Kurdish minority, mostly in the north, also had a long history of facing repression by Hussein that had killed up to 100,000


    13. But it does mean the death toll from repression falls from tens of millions to thousands and Soviet leaders looking to avoid further Cold War that both Truman and Stalin trapped their nations into


    14. It is not overstating to call the Patriot Act repression


    15. So why was it not included? While repression is certainly true, pointing to deaths is far harder, especially since many of the ways the law is used are still not known to the public


    16. For three generations, the Confederacy’s ever tightening dictatorship uses terror and repression against Blacks, Natives, Mexicans, Jews, Catholics, Mormons, Germans, Cajuns, and women to stay in power


    17. For the most part, the move for independence came with forced accommodation and painful repression, such as in the case of India, but all-out war occurred only with the case of the American colonies


    18. Words may serve as wings to new adventures of the mind or as sledgehammers of repression


    19. The philosophers of collective repression, comfortable and tenured, puffing on their pied pipes of illusion, may never intend to go out and do anything themselves to effect their barbaric theories


    20. If reminded that those in the past who have won absolute power have led their countries only to repression and misery, they may admit that is so

    21. But despite their denial and repression by the Civil War the time-tested judgments of our history and our culture are there


    22. Naturally, they could not visit all the big cities, much less the thousands upon thousands of villages where poverty is said to abound and repression reigns inexorably


    23. In addition, Roger addressed himself to the columnist: “I abhor war just as much as you do, for as a result of war and Communist dominance I have known indescribable hunger, experienced abject misery, witnessed despicable injustices, and suffered atrocious repression


    24. of the virtuous victims of American political repression, and in that capacity continues to enjoy a favorable reputation among many on


    25. The differences between her repression and yours being two; One, that she consciously chose hers, knowing full well how it would affect her, and two, that she now has the trigger she has been waiting for to release her from her repression, namely having married you


    26. defense mechanisms of denial and repression of their hatred, and then they split the


    27. jump out of our repression, act out our hatred and then justify it with false


    28. repression in such a way that we are aware of and responsible for the hatred


    29. To help people overcome the repression and denial of their hatred,


    30. It must be clear that during intrauterine life, the repression and denial of

    31. Repression means to forget the need to hate; denial means closing the


    32. this image, we can see how repression and denial of hatred correspond to this


    33. to begin to give up one’s repression because now it is possible, with the I


    34. One of these is repression: when faced with an incestuous desire, we can


    35. A first reflection: it is true that repression exists and it is present in the


    36. They do so not only through repression, but also with denial of the castration


    37. Therefore, repression is a defense, but it is not a defense that can save


    38. Freud says that there is another solution besides repression


    39. Therefore, we can see all this in action: the effects of repression, of de-


    40. following these four solutions we have already tried: repression, denial,

    41. where repression of the desire and hatred towards the mother will begin: “my


    42. The television pictures confirmed her words like others in the community, showing the brutal repression of such gatherings by the police there


    43. " Moral worth cannot be derived from mere repression -- obeying the injunction "Thou shalt not


    44. For example, in Freud's time and place, repression of sexual thoughts and impulses was


    45. Upon it rests the dynamic formulation of repression and the


    46. 117)-that is, repression


    47. lt is fear of castration by the father that leads to repression and sublimation of the desire for the mother; it is men who are dangerous to one another


    48. His job is to protect her at all cost, and not to bring more violence, more repression into her life


    49. new society that was fair with equality, and to be free of repression from this society


    50. Now that we have taken care of a small domestic problem of our own in 3386, we have been concentrating in completing the elimination of the Nazi Party machine and of its instruments of repression












































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    Synonyms for "repression"

    repression force compulsion pressure restraint constraint stifling

    "repression" definitions

    a state of forcible subjugation


    (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