Affect Quote by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

“Repression isn’t the answer. I know that. It’s one of the things that punish the body for what’s closed up in the mind. It’s…

— Nora Roberts

“Repression is dangerous. It makes anvils of memories and drops them from impossible heights when you least expect it.”

— Kris Kidd

“Repression and denial set up elaborate games to pretend that negative thoughts and feelings are not occurring.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.”

— John Steinbeck

Repression is fantastic.

— Courteney Cox

“Far more perversions arise from repression than from expression”

— Brandi Lynn Ryder

Repression is an evolutionary adaptation permitting us to function under the burden of our expanded consciousness. For what we are conscious of could drive…

— Camille Paglia

“repression, which “proceeds from the self-respect of the ego … [the person] has set up an ideal in himself by which he measures his…

— Joseph Sandler

Repression in the human psyche is tightly bundled. When it has been pulled out of the sprung package so often it is perhaps difficult…

— Graham Joyce

The state in which the ideas existed before being made conscious is called by us repression, and we assert that the force which instituted…

— Sigmund Freud

“The great boon of repression is that it makes it possible to live decisively in an overwhelmingly miraculous and incomprehensible world, a world so…

— Ernest Becker

I am not for any form of repression, but I sometimes think the desire for liberation masks the desire for oblivion. It's very hard…

— Francis Levy