Sentences with phrase «freudian repression»

The night after I saw it, I had a bizarre dream about an army of male soldiers with very long legs, which smacked of some Freudian repression or other.

Beck proposes that the daycare panic was a case of classic Freudian repression — that act of mental avoidance whereby we don't want to admit that we know or desire something, and so compensate by insisting, rather too forcefully, that we know or desire its opposite.

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This therapy was based on a dubious account of the operations of memory, whereby traumatic events cause instant amnesia («repression,» in a misuse of that Freudian term).

Throughout his life, love was always Auden's remedy, but in these early years he described it sometimes in Freudian terms as a release from repression, sometimes in Marxist terms as authentic existence through social action.

For a generation under the influence of Freudian psychology and other factors in the prevailing climate of hedonistic individualism, we have been hearing that sexual repression induces neurosis and that the inhibitions of an earlier day should be disregarded.

Harvard neurobiologist J. Allan Hobson used recordings of brain activity from sleeping people to gleefully trash psychoanalytic dream theory, and by implication, the central Freudian ideas of censorship and repression.

Only Brian is credited with any internal mental complexity, thanks to a bit of old - fashioned Freudian psychology which explains his nerdish genius in terms of sexual repression.

Channelling Freudian ideas that our obsessions, fears and phobias are manifestations of repression, Sherman's fragmented bodies unearth the two primary pillars of Surrealism: Desire and Fear.