138 Quotes About Repression

Tradition: a cage for the free spirit.

The caged animal despairs.

The guraded life is not worth living.

Repression sits outside our heads to rule us, and Ideology sits inside our heads to do just the same. Nothing changes, except its position. Our position remains the same!

Art is a revolt against repression.

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.

Memory repression thrives in shame, secrecy, and shock. The shame and degradation experienced during sexual assault is profound, especially for children who have no concept of what is happening to them or why. Sexual abuse is so bizarre and horrible that the frightened child feels compelled to bury the event deep inside his or her mind.

Repression may begin as a means to an end, but it always ends up being an end unto itself

It seems characteristic of the mind of man that the repression of what is natural to humans must be abhorred, but that what is natural to an infinitely more natural animal must be confined within the bounds of a reason peculiar only to men -- more peculiar sometimes than seems reasonable at all.