repression
ਜਬਰ
definition
noun
Irish readers will quickly spot the familiar pattern of failed uprising followed by brutal repression .
the action of subduing someone or something by force.
example
They had accepted all that world of sexual 'repression' , had accepted its rules, the hypocrisy of the myth of female virginity and, needless to say, they had accepted authority.
But the political 'repression' in his native Hungary quashed his writing ambitions.
Struggling with rage, 'repression' , and obsessive desire, she gradually allows herself to have a sexual relationship with the one person she adores - her sister.
If new studies of memory and the brain disprove Freud's fundamental hypotheses about the mechanism of 'repression' , then Freud's theory of libido becomes less plausible, and psychoanalysis is undermined as a theory of art.
The power of 'repression' is almost palpable in her gestures and intonations.
For example, during Reiko's struggle for sexual liberation, the mysterious stranger indeed helps knock down the walls of her 'repression' and reawakens her own desires, which takes about half an hour of film time.
the 'repression' of anger can be positively harmful
When his lawyer describes him as ‘the modern man’, we understand that his 'repression' is shared by the film's society.
Violence and 'repression' work to desensitize people, leaving only a numbing wish to forget what is happening all about them.
One can go further and suggest that this refusal to acknowledge and represent homosexual desire is another form of the writer's 'repression' of the feminine within.
As a young boy but not a child 'repression' of sexual desire for the mother has occurred and latency should be present.
Most surprising were reports about intellectual 'repression' that students were experiencing.
Strong image is often reached by means of severe censoring and suppression; the clarity of image frequently contains hidden 'repression' .
I haven't attended a circus since and can only surmise what sort of unspeakable terror I experienced that day, its memory locked deep within the vault of 'repression' that sits just east of my heart.
Nor can they have any idea of what it must be like to live permanently in an atmosphere of fear and violent 'repression' .
The ruling royal family, which has enjoyed the lion's share of oil wealth, is perceived as corrupt, and 'repression' of domestic discontent is high.
Irish readers will quickly spot the familiar pattern of failed uprising followed by brutal 'repression' .
It is actually composed of emotional distance, politics, finance, and sexual 'repression' .
students sparked off events that ended in brutal 'repression'
The last forty pages of the publication are dedicated to the numerous journalists who have fallen the victims of 'repression' around the world.
The denial of consensual interracial alliance - political or sexual - highlights the key role 'repression' plays in establishing the social order of the post-Reconstruction South.
The extra layer of 'repression' , though, becomes a gauze obscuring the emotional beats of the story.
It also provides practical help to journalists and media that are the victims of 'repression' .
In 1938 he was the subject of an offensive caricature in Samuel Beckett's Murphy, where his experiments with Gaelic prosody and his sexual 'repression' are mocked in the figure of Austin Ticklepenny.
Suo's movie was, beyond sweet entertainment, a subtle look at Japanese work culture and the 'repression' of desire.
For the Fellbach assignment, Mieth and Hagel returned to the German town they had fled more than two decades earlier because of Nazi 'repression' .
A reputation for tolerance and civil liberties had been replaced by violence and 'repression' .
In the short term, more 'repression' may be an effective way for these leaders to quell opposition.
While many Kurds did manage to assimilate, decades of 'repression' and strained coexistence served to strengthen ethnic self-awareness for innumerable others.
the 'repression' of anger can be positively harmful
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