logo

Quotes About Repressed

If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there are two primary causes: one is that if there is discourse about anxiety it is necessarily going to induce anxiety. It will represent a return of the repressed for a great many people.
~ Harold Bloom
Powell repressed the wave of exasperation that rose up in him. It was not exasperation with Chooka. It was anger for the relentless force of evolution that insisted on endowing man with increased powers without removing the vestigial vices that prevented him from using them.
~ Alfred Bester
Your unconscious wants to express the pain you feel about your own lost innocence. But your ego wants to keep it repressed. To the compromise is anxiety.
~ Alison Bechdel
The ladies, whose curved fingernails had been lavished with the nuanced paintwork normally reserved for museum-quality surfboards, listened with barely repressed hilarity.
~ Jennifer Egan
unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and they will come forth later in uglier ways.
~ Robin S. Sharma
Your anxiety attach in the church sounds like a compromise formation. A what? Your unconscious wants to express the pain you feel about your own lost innocense. But your ego wants to keep it repressed. So the compromise is anxiety.
~ Alison Bechdel
All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
~ Elias Canetti
All things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
~ Elias Canetti
He considered her ruthless, in his moments of pain, but also in moments of happiness, experienced mere feet from her but bound right wrist to left ankle by her rules: nothing could evolve, nothing could be consummated, nothing repressed could surface, nothing previously accepted could be ignored. One must not speak of it, in case one could no longer sing of it. Instead, she only kept directing his attention to the wondrously charged air they could tame and make dance between them.
~ Arthur Phillips
İfade edilmemiÅŸ duygular asla ölmez, sadece diri diri gömülür ve sonradan daha korkunç ÅŸekillerde tezahür ederler.
~ Sigmund Freud
dreams may be thus stated: They are concealed realizations of repressed desires.
~ Sigmund Freud
Les émotions non exprimées ne meurent jamais. Elles sont enterrées vivantes et libérées plus tard de façon plus laides.
~ Sigmund Freud
Dear God, this was awful. She's been kidnapped by a repressed part of her subconscious, her body taken over by a wanton nympho with no dignity who was sexually aroused by bad behaviour.
~ Shannon McKenna
My mom was very much the product of a very paternalistic, deep-southern culture, but also a repressed feminist. Her way of being defiant was to raise us to be rebellious ourselves - basically, the opposite of who she had to be in her own life.
~ Campbell Brown
I don't want to, in any way, characterize a race or a people or get accused of racial profiling, but the Irish, as lyrical and romantic as they can be in their poetry, they can be every bit as repressed in their personal relations.
~ Stephen Lang
There was a beautiful church where I lived in Navan, taught by the Christian brothers: fierce, angry men, repressed.
~ Pierce Brosnan
Black Rainbow' is about control and your emotions being repressed and controlled, and 'Mandy's' about all a volcanic eruption!
~ Panos Cosmatos
I don't see how 'Hunchback' could ever appeal to children. It's a very adult story that deals with repressed sexuality.
~ Dennis DeYoung
I think we all have a little dark side we keep under wraps.
~ Fred Savage
Excuse #2: "I'm Shy" Well, so am I. Most stand-ups are very shy in their personal lives, and going onstage is a great outlet. You shy people have a lot of stuff to let out, and the stage gives you an arena in which to vent your repressed criticisms of the world.
~ Judy Carter
Reclaimed, unrepressed infantile experience enriches rather than detracts from adult experience. The
~ Stephen A. Mitchell
It is not that the beautiful totality of the individual is amputated, repressed, altered by our social order, it is rather that the individual is carefully fabricated in it, according to a whole technique of forces and bodies.
~ Michel Foucault
There is child abuse, and there are such things as repressed memories. But there are also such things as false memories and confabulations, and they are not rare at all. Misrememberings are the rule, not the exception. They occur all the time. They occur even in cases where the subject is absolutely confident - even when the memory is a seemingly unforgettable flashbulb, one of those metaphorical mental photographs.
~ Carl Sagan
Long a medical mystery (and still to some degree today), headaches have been blamed on such factors as wimpishness, psychological disorders, repressed emotions, demons, mothers-in-law, red wine, old cheese, and bad karma.
~ Buck Tilton