Sentence examples for repressed thoughts from inspiring English sources

Wegner calls this "the ironic return of repressed thoughts".

Contemplating denial, Freud talked about "minimisation", in which a fact is admitted but its seriousness denied, and "projection", in which repressed thoughts are attributed to someone else.

Had some sort of buffer — a protective, inhibiting frontal-lobe function — been breached by his accident, allowing an uncontrollable rush of previously suppressed or repressed thoughts and fantasies into his consciousness?

Psychologist Sigmund Freud whose theories revolved around the concept of the "unconscious mind"—believed that dreams were a way for a person to harmlessly discharge repressed thoughts and desires.

Jung also disputed Freud's concept of the unconscious mind being little more than a reservoir of repressed thoughts; to Jung, these hidden emotions were something that could be tapped and freed to become a source of immense artistic creativity.

Central to psychoanalytic theory, which was founded by Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud, is the postulated existence of an unconscious part of the mind which, among other functions, acts as a repository for repressed thoughts, feelings, and memories that are disturbing or otherwise unacceptable to the conscious mind.

Freud's account of how psychic energy is vented in joke-telling is also questionable, especially his claim that packets of psychic energy are summoned to repress thoughts and feelings, but in statu nascendi (in the process of being born) are rendered superfluous.

And we repress thoughts about it successfully.

Many women have repressed their thoughts about sexual activity and part of their homework was also to allow these thoughts freedom and to give thought to what they wanted and needed sexually.

Modern followers of Sigmund Freud (1856 1939) have argued that a great many ordinary parapraxes (or "Freudian slips") are the result of deeply repressed unconscious thoughts and desires.

By the time I escaped it all years later, I had been anorexic long enough to want nothing of it, and so I repressed the thoughts and feelings that had trapped me.