Jodie Comer

Emotions fascinate me, just being able to express myself through acting. I love that. And I think, in everyday life, you're always trying to repress your emotions. Like if you're sad, you don't want to show it to someone else.

English Actress

Richard Ashcroft

My job is to make grown men cry, to blow people's minds and elevate them, make them transcend and unlock emotions that have been repressed by life, their job, situation - that's what I do.

English Musician

Anna Torv

Why can't a woman be a little cooler in her emotions and a little quieter and more repressed without it being a huge thing? I've actually always quite enjoyed that, to tell you the truth.

Australian Actress

Mary Whitehouse

I never had any hang-ups about sex. As for being sexually repressed, nothing could be further from the truth. There are more hang-ups now than ever there were when I was growing up.

British Activist

Gary Ross

We repress the things we're scared of, but if we just look at and embrace the things we're scared of, it's a much fuller, richer life that's also not as scary.

American Actor

Vaani Kapoor

I think I have started to take life as it comes and quite uninhibitedly, without being repressed by the expectations of the society.

Indian Actress

Cyril Connolly

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.

English Journalist

Karl Kraus

Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.

Austrian Writer

Oliver Tambo

There is no way a spirit of resistance that has sunk so deep in the population can be repressed.

South African Politician

Charlotte Caffey

My whole world up until punk was this total repressed Catholic lifestyle.

American Musician

Used when someone with authority stops something forcefully.

Power Dynamics

Negative Connotation

Implies control of abstract things, not physical objects.

Not Physically

Highlights effort to hide one’s own feelings or reactions.

Internal Struggle

Shows control over emotional expressions in oneself, seen as composure.

Emotional Restraint

Not meant to draw attention; subtle suppression.

Inconspicuous

The process is often unintentional and unconscious.

Subconscious Act

Commonly used to refer to blocking out painful past events.

Trauma Related

Often found in psychological or therapeutic contexts.

Therapeutic Discourse

 it repressed what makes us most human. We ended up with social media. Does social media really connect people in new, interesting ways? No, social media is about using our data to predict our future behavior. Or when necessary, to influence our future behavior so that we act more in accordance with our statistical profiles.

How to be "Team Human"...

 He proposed that people are motivated by unconscious desires and repressed memories, and their problems can be addressed by making those motivations conscious through talk therapy. His influence towers above that of all other psychologists in the public eye.

History vs. Sigmund...

 they've asked me for money, and I've walked around them, and I did not acknowledge their humanity. And the list could go on and on, but you want to think of times when something might have happened sexually, times when you've been keeping things repressed,

Sakinah Hofler: How...

 and rage and repressed rage -- we've all got it. So our layperson's definition of burnout is, as you said, that feeling of being overwhelmed and exhausted by everything you have to do, while still worrying that you're not doing enough. Mm hmm.

Emily Nagoski and Amelia...

 for the very first time, furnishing the yardstick of the universe. Meanwhile, a dutiful teenage boy in the Midwest was repressing his childhood love of astronomy and beginning his legal studies to fulfill his dying father's demand

Humanity's Search for...

 Me shyly, obliquely, trying not to be furtive. She boldly, unblinkingly, even pugnaciously, wrathfully even, when her bottle was empty. I was frightened of her. I felt like a child. I was afraid some repressed part of myself

C.K. Williams: Poetry...

 He'll let them return to their countries. And more important, he will let them all recover the gods, the statues, the temple vessels that had been confiscated. All the peoples that the Babylonians had repressed and removed

Neil MacGregor: 2600...

 it created some pretty bad problems for hostilities, primarily from the repressed memory therapists, who felt under attack, and by the patients whom they had influenced. I had sometimes armed guards at speeches

How reliable is your...

 So, when I look at creativity, I also think that it is this sense or this inability to repress, my looking at associations in practically anything in life. And I got a lot of them during what's been going on

Where does creativity...

 I don't have a lot of memories I don't know if it's just I'm repressing it and I don't want to remember I just don't

Repress