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[[Repression]]: pushing thoughts into the unconscious through setting up walls and preventing painful or dangerous thoughts from entering the conscious mind. | [[Repression]]: pushing thoughts into the unconscious through setting up walls and preventing painful or dangerous thoughts from entering the conscious mind. | ||
Psychological repression, is the psychological attempt made by an individual to direct one's own desires and impulses toward pleasurable instincts by excluding the desire from one's consciousness and holding or subduing it in the unconscious. In psychoanalytic theory repression plays a major role in many mental illnesses, and in the psyche of the average person.<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_repression Repression]</ref> | |||
==Ego Defense Mechanism== | ==Ego Defense Mechanism== | ||