Self Repression

Ultimately it will come out in some channel, either inwardly on themselves in the manner of serious self-repression, self-loathing and fear, or outwardly in the shape of blind rage and violence, against themselves and against others, including women and girls. ❋ Kevin Powell (2011)

At this point, a psychoanalyst might inquire whether his self-disappearance weren't merely self-repression. ❋ Toby Lichtig (2011)

And perhaps I cannot better end these hesitating words than with that tribute from one who called this master, friend, and whose lament cried in the night with more of depth and passion than Alfred Noyes is wont in his self-repression to voice: ❋ W.E.B. DU BOIS (2004)

They are repressing themselves because they are gay … and then the logical consequence for that self-repression is to join a party that rejects homosexuality. ❋ Unknown (2007)

More about self-repression and noble characters who silently tolerate those folks who don't know themselves or who are living life with an entirely different set of rules about forbearance and intrusion. ❋ Tia Nevitt (2008)

And also the power that his self-repression gave him. ❋ Don Delillo (2008)

With no social intercourse to compel self-repression, Mlle. de ❋ Unknown (2007)

The very neglect in which I was left, and the consequent habits of self-repression and self-concentration; did not these things teach me how to consider and reflect? ❋ Unknown (2007)

It is easy to mistake self-repression for sensuality. ❋ Adam Roberts Project (2007)