Over the past few weeks I had completely repressed the idea that Raif was actually going to be whipped in addition to his prison sentence.
Unless technology itself is drastically repressed, the idea of the dystopian monoculture like Orwell's 1984 gets harder to believe.
It's true that some people think peer review, at its glacial pace and with its bias towards the existing consensus, works to actively repress new ideas that are challenging to received opinion.
English and other European languages, he said in 1986, were "part of the neo-colonial structures that repress progressive ideas".
That is why those who defy the regime or offer convincing alternatives to Putin must be repressed and their ideas censored -- everywhere, including social media.
Anyone thinking about Valentine's Day reservations is already actively repressing this idea, and then, in unguarded moments, wondering if they have time to get to Sur La Table for a heart-shaped pan — and then, undetected, to bake a heart-shaped cake.
Green rejected the orthodox Christian belief that, in Nettleship's words, Jesus "was born and died under conditions [which are] impossible to other human beings" (Nettleship, p.c). Hence he attacked the Nicene council for seeking to repress the idea that Jesus was born a normal human being.
There was a receptive audience for the Freudian idea that repressed self-hatred could lead to self-absorption, grandiosity and shallowness in individuals, and for the notion that this personality disorder could somehow be reflected in the spirit of a wealthy, coddled and self-indulgent age.For Sigmund Freud, there was a good sort of narcissism, at least in early life, and a bad sort.
Yet as mentioned, I was deeply repressed, I had no idea how to masturbate (seriously) and in my experience, the majority of the men I had been with were Pakistani and not one of them enjoyed going down on me (in fact, a lot became defensive when the topic came up).
"I would feel myself being a little bit repressed in my creativity, and ideas would not come to me as easily.
His intellectual allegiance to unreconstructed Freudian ideas — most notably, repressed memory — seemed somewhat antique, but it imparted jolting powers to penetrate and dismay.
