Quotes About Repression

Human rights politics and law went some way to sensitizing humanity to the misery of visible indigence alongside the horrific repression of authoritarian and totalitarian states—but not to the crisis of national welfare, the stagnation of middle classes, and the endurance of global hierarchy.

Non si è forse osservato abbastanza che il problema della libertà sensuale in tutte le sue forme è in gran parte un problema di libertà di espressione. Appare evidente come, di generazione in generazione, le tendenze e gli atti differiscono ben poco; ciò che invece cambia è l'estensione della zona di silenzio che li circonda o lo spessore degli strati di menzogna che li comprimono.

In Russia they put you in insane asylums if you disagree with the state: it's not so different here. Keep the natives quiet.

No era el deseo de aprender, de triunfar, lo que te confinaba en la biblioteca, sino de marearte, intoxicarte, perderte en esas materias —ciencias o letras, daba igual— para no pensar, para ahuyentar los recuerdos dominicanos. —Pero

Kundalini power, the symbol of raising the energy coiled at the base of the spine upward through the chakras, is called by Sri Chinmoy, 'the power of the Supreme Goddess.' Repressed or coiled in a circle, she can be poisonous both to the body and the psyche, but once risen and standing upright, she is beneficent. The power of the serpent, rightly understood, is one of the ways the Goddess overcomes duality.

Si certains lieux publics avaient survécu aux répressions du régime, soit c'était pour nous laisser un espace de liberté, soit c'était de l'ignorance.

Le régime avait compris qu'une personne qui sortait de chez elle en se demandant: est-ce que mon pantalon est assez long? est-ce que mon foulard est à sa place? est-ce que mon maquillage se voir? est-ce qu'ils vont me fouetter? ne se demandait plus: où est ma liberté de pensée? où est ma liberté de parole? ma vie, est-elle vivable? que se passe-t-il dans les prisons politiques?

To turn a decent young man into a piece of clockwork should not, surely, be seen as any triumph for any government, save one that boasts of its repressiveness.

Les asiles d'aliénés sont des réceptacles de magies noire, conscients et prémédités.

The nationalists justified the brutality of their repression as reprisals for the red terror, but as had been the case in Seville, Córdoba and in Badajoz, and as would be the case in Málaga six months later, the subsequent nationalist killings exceeded those of the left several, if not many, times over.

She forced herself to sit up primly on the edge of the marble bench, repressing firmly the nausea she felt at its warm pressure, and she smoothed the black linen of her dress across her lap, and tucked in her hair, which had somehow come loose, and crossed her ankles decently, and took her black-edged handkerchief from her bosom and dried her eyes and wiped away the dampness and grime from her face. Now, she thought; I may go mad, but at least I look like a lady.

The patient cannot remember the whole of what is repressed in him, and what he cannot remember may be precisely the essential part of it.. He is obliged to repeat the repressed material as a contemporary experience instead of remembering it as something in the past.

In matters of sexuality we are at present, every one of us, ill or well, nothing but hypocrites.

Dreaming, in short, is one of the devices we employ to circumvent repression, one of the main methods of what may be called indirect representation in the mind.

The state in which the ideas existed before being made conscious is called by us repression

The dream is the (disguised) fulfillment of a (suppressed, repressed) wish.

Dream disfigurement, then, turns out in reality to be an act of the censor.

But since Freud still conceives the mind as a closed system, desires are not expelled but only hidden away.

The words for much that remains mute in me

Our unconscious therefore does not believe in its own death; it acts as though it were immortal.

Aber wenn das menschliche Schuldgefühl auf die Tötung des Urvaters zurückgeht, das war doch ein Fall von 'Reue', und damals soll der Voraussetzung nach Gewissen und Schuldgefühl vor der Tat nicht bestanden haben? Woher kam in diesem Fall die Reue?

We may say that the patient does not remember anything at all of what he has forgotten and repressed, but rather acts it out. He reproduces it not as a memory, but as an action; he repeats it, without of course being aware of the fact that he is repeating it.

The greater the resistance, the more thoroughly remembering will be replaced by acting out (repetition)....he repeats everything deriving from the repressed element within himself that has already established itself in his manifest personality.

repression—which we must carefully note is not a suspension. The excitations in question are produced as usual but are prevented from attaining their aim by psychic hindrances, and are driven off into many other paths until they express themselves in a symptom.