Sentences with phrase «repression of the libido»

The effort to obey this teaching, involving as it does the repression of the libido, must result in self - torment and ultimately illness.

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It's a gorgeously realized portrait of sexual repression, deftly avoiding the usual pitfalls involved in playing bottled - up types; Ann comes across not as a withered husk but merely as someone whose libido has never quite been fully charged, until now.