Sentence examples for repressed desires from inspiring English sources

Did Sigmund Freud's mother have repressed desires for harissa and saffron?

Ukip's election manifesto just didn't have the courage to express its supporters' repressed desires.

Milland's investigation of the paranormal becomes a sort of psychotherapy, uncovering repressed desires and buried resentments.

"It is," says Cartwright, "about repressed desires and how some people's lives can be lived without ever coming to fruition".

The other is clean, enclosed, ordered, all-female; a convent in which freedoms are repressed, desires scrubbed and pumiced out of sight.

If you can't make your friend stop prattling on about repressed desires, why not at least make sure that she's getting her facts right?

Rouch and Morin expose the inner cost of that collective silence with a brilliant twist on their film's premise: if the French were neurotically unhappy, it wasn't only because of their repressed desire but also because of their repressed history.

"Among other things," she explains, "the position of the spectators in the cinema is blatantly one of repression of their exhibitionism and projection of the repressed desire into the performer".

Was it a subliminal expression of a repressed desire to be a powerful statesmen?

Repressed desire is a powerful force here, and these two light all the right jets.

We're not aware of the conflict itself — we're not aware that we have a repressed desire — but we are aware of our anxiety.