unrepressed

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• Freud thought dreams were our subconscious showing us our repressed wishes.

• For whatever repressed childhood reason, a wave of guilt washes over me when uneaten food goes into the trash.

• Those making the case for reparations invariably uphold themselves as a historically repressed minority deserving of reparations.

• Hongmei’s trauma helps explain her venting to the strange man — she’s been trained to think of every misstep as a regret, and it’s easier to share so many repressed secrets with a stranger than with her husband.

• Judge Frollo’s actions are ruled by his own repressed sexual desires, which grow until they render him desperate and diabolical.

• But perhaps even more interesting is the type of user-generated content coming from areas of the country some consider repressed.

• And yet, collectively our culture is still repressed when it comes to the subject of sex.

• This inner world, as Freud and others had previously suggested, was a fiction of repressed fantasies, dreams, and visions.

• The characters in Downton and in that time period are often quite reserved and their emotions are repressed.

• Repressed anger is one of the key dimensions to this struggle.

• But for the delinquency of his son, she had ocular demonstration; and her indignation was hardly to be repressed.

• She repressed her anger at Marius's sneering interference, and made a little gesture of dismay with her eloquent white hands.

• As a natural consequence her repressed but still rebellious passions diffused their poison throughout her nature.

• It was as if the Dowager's voice had opened the floodgates of her sorrow and let out the tears that hitherto had been repressed.