Philosophical concept

Repression

Repression is the process by which a representation remains outside consciousness while continuing to exert indirect effects.

Works
18
Passages
1,374
Thinkers
8
Traditions
6

Understand uses of the concept

Repression is the process by which a representation remains outside consciousness while continuing to exert indirect effects.

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 1,374 passages across 18 works, including Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents, Letters to Atticus, The Analects of Confucius (Lúnyǔ). These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

Lexical variants: verdrängung, repression, refoulement

Works where the concept is identified

  1. Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual DocumentsCorrespondents and archival record · 0 passages
  2. Letters to AtticusCicero · 0 passages
  3. The Analects of Confucius (Lúnyǔ)Confucius · 0 passages
  4. Beyond the Pleasure PrincipleSigmund Freud · 60 passages
  5. Jokes and Their Relation to the UnconsciousSigmund Freud · 224 passages
  6. The Interpretation of DreamsSigmund Freud · 630 passages
  7. The Psychopathology of Everyday LifeSigmund Freud · 84 passages
  8. Three Essays on the Theory of SexualitySigmund Freud · 109 passages
  9. Totem and TabooSigmund Freud · 180 passages
  10. Collected Papers on Analytical PsychologyCarl Gustav Jung · 0 passages
  11. Psychological TypesCarl Gustav Jung · 0 passages
  12. Psychology of the Unconscious: Transformations and Symbols of the LibidoCarl Gustav Jung · 0 passages
  13. The Theory of PsychoanalysisCarl Gustav Jung · 0 passages
  14. On AngerSeneca · 0 passages
  15. Theologico-Political Treatise, English ManifestationBaruch Spinoza · 0 passages
  16. Summa Contra GentilesThomas Aquinas · 0 passages
  17. Summa TheologiaeThomas Aquinas · 0 passages