Repression is a kind of holding back or holding down. There's repression of feelings (willing yourself not to cry), as well as social repression (where the government limits freedom or shuts out certain groups). Repression is like suppression: you restrain, inhibit, or subdue something.
What are examples of repression?
Examples of Repression
- A child suffers abuse by a parent, represses the memories, and becomes completely unaware of them as a young adult. ...
- An adult suffers a nasty spider bite as a child and develops an intense phobia of spiders later in life without any recollection of the experience as a child.
What repressed means?
transitive verb. 1a : to check by or as if by pressure : curb injustice was repressed. b : to put down by force : subdue repress a disturbance. 2a : to hold in by self-control repressed a laugh. b : to prevent the natural or normal expression, activity, or development of repressed her anger.
