Repression Quotes

“The repressed and the undeveloped are two different things.”

“One can say that in the last resort the repressed is nothing but the undeveloped.”

“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.”

“The symptom is a symbol of a repressed conflict.”

“The specific content of the unconscious is repressed, not contents in general.”

“Thousands of people in our country have been subjected to repression for their convictions, for their protests against injustice.”

“Oh, if I could only be a little wild for once in my life!”

“The real proletariat is the child, and the repressed classes are the repressed wishes in all of us.”

“The path of sublimation is the path of mummification.”

“People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.”

“The family's function is to repress Eros; to induce a false consciousness of security; to deny death by avoiding life; to cut off transcendence; to believe in God, not to experience the Void.”

“The distinguishing feature of advanced industrial society is its effective suffocation of those needs which demand liberation.”

“Genuine feelings cannot be produced, nor can they be eradicated. We can only repress them, conceal them, or pretend to strangers—and sometimes to ourselves—that we do not have them.”

“Human rights are for human beings, not for subversives.”