repressions
Stifled internal conflicts
Repressions is the plural of repression—acts of suppressing or restraining something.
Political repressions are government crackdowns on dissent: The regime's repressions intensified after the protests.
In psychology, repressions refer to the unconscious exclusion of painful memories or desires from awareness.
The word often appears in discussions of authoritarian control or Freudian theory.
Unjust exercise of power
- authoritarianismConcentrated, unchecked governmental power
- tyrannyOppressive, absolute governance
- totalitarianismState controls everything absolutely
- dictatorshipUnchecked single-ruler government
crackdown · purge · persecution · dissidents · regime · junta · surveillance · detention
Refusal to accept reality
- inhibitionMental check on behavior
- bottlingPackaging liquids in containers
- buryingCovering with earth
- dissociationMental separation from surroundings
coping · unconscious · avoidance · compartmentalization · sublimation · ego · id · superego
Emotional responses experienced internally
- emotionsPsychological feeling states
- angerIntense hostile emotion
- griefIntense sorrow from loss
- fearEmotional response to threat
stifling · withholding · masking · concealment · restraint · smothering · internalizing · unexpressed
Stored past experiences
- flashbacksInvoluntary vivid memory episodes
- triggersCauses or activates
- buriedPlaced beneath earth
- childhoodLife's earliest phase
wounds · recovery · surfacing · therapy · nightmares · dissociation · healing · unresolved
oppression
Unjust exercise of power
- authoritarianismConcentrated, unchecked governmental power
- tyrannyOppressive, absolute governance
- totalitarianismState controls everything absolutely
dictatorship · crackdown · purge · persecution · dissidents · regime · junta · surveillance · detention · imprisonment
denial
Refusal to accept reality
- inhibitionMental check on behavior
- bottlingPackaging liquids in containers
- buryingCovering with earth
dissociation · coping · unconscious · avoidance · compartmentalization · sublimation · ego · id · superego · therapy
feelings
Emotional responses experienced internally
fear · stifling · withholding · masking · concealment · restraint · smothering · internalizing · unexpressed · pent-up
memories
Stored past experiences
- flashbacksInvoluntary vivid memory episodes
- triggersCauses or activates
- buriedPlaced beneath earth
childhood · wounds · recovery · surfacing · therapy · nightmares · dissociation · healing · unresolved · processing
- BelarusMinsk, Lukashenko, oblasts, oblast, Mir
- Baltic SovietsSinging Revolution, Soviet occupation, independence movement, National Front, Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
repressionsexpressions
Outward manifestations of feeling
releases · catharses · liberations · outlets · ventings
repressionsliberations
Acts of freeing captives
freedoms · emancipations · liberalizations · liberties · tolerances
repressionsacknowledgments
Recognition of contributions
recognitions · revelations · disclosures · admissions · confrontations
- political repressionState suppression of opposition
- emotional repressionBlocking one's own feelings
- police repressionForceful control by authorities