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Definition of: repression

(ri·preshən) noun
1. The act of repressing, or the condition of being repressed.
2. That which holds in check; a restraint.
3. Psychoanal. The exclusion from consciousness of painful, unpleasant, or unacceptable psychic material, as memories, desires, and impulses, which are thus compelled to manifest themselves through the unconcious.

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