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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I had a lot of repressed anger toward my family that I didn't realize till my father died.
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The actress plays a repressed young woman trapped in a loveless marriage.
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The Victorian era is characterized by its strict conventions and repressed emotion.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An initial period of identification is important to a repressed group that has never had adequate self-images.
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Arthur Penn's movie is a study of teenage trauma and repressed sexuality masquerading as a Western.
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As if some one like me should have sat there quietly like a mouse, demure and repressed !
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It is a form of reenactment of repressed memories, a kind of photo-theatre, or psychic realism.
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It may well have been rooted in a repressed homosexuality according to the psychoanalytic model.
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She's probably lived such a repressed life she goes berserk when she comes out to the West Indies.
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The repressed is, says Freud, the prototype of the unconscious.
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The vicious circle of repressed feeling is finally broken.