Sentence examples for mental repression from inspiring English sources

I always believe the old proverb "Don't Fuck About", and straightaway ask if it's true to say that Village People, through their many sloganeering lyrics, are out to liberate gays from mental repression by means of open celebration.

Low believability of patients' answers was seldom attributed to poor memory or mental repression, though sometimes to "craziness" or unacceptable manipulation and arrogance: "I just don't want to sit there and be ridiculed... that they just sit and decide they know better than me" (Cph14).

The linchpin of his lecture is the notion that if the goal of classic psychoanalysis was to liberate people from their repressions, mental health under late capitalism requires the struggle to free ourselves from the compulsion to satisfy an endless and irrational set of desires.

When Ingmar Bergman's PERSONA (1967) opened in the United States, Bosley Crowther, writing in The New York Times, called it "a veritable poem of two feminine spirits exchanging their longings, repressions and mental woes".

"The important thing is that Mr. Bergman has magnificently and sensitively composed a veritable poem of two feminine spirits exchanging their longings, repressions and mental woes against a background of natural beauty and the atmosphere of the sea".

The unconventional choices of women are explained in the language of mental illness, trauma, or sexual repression, as symptoms of pathology rather than as an active response to structural challenges or mere preference.

Darwin devoted a book to emotional expression in humans and animals, Freud based his theory of mental pathology on unsuccessful emotional repression, and the American psychologist William James weighed in with a body-based theory of emotion strikingly similar to Spinoza's own.

Reich believed that cancer and mental illness are caused by sexual repression.

When Elizabeth later punishes her daughter for nervous weakness, she is expressing – through repression – her fear of mental instabilities she recognises well.

Freud's concept of repression refers to the defensive inhibition of "unbearable" mental content.

The expansion of CGG repeats above 200 leads to the repression or silencing of FMR1 and consequently to the absence of the fragile X mental retardation protein (FMRP).