6 sentences with 'repression'
Example sentences and phrases with the word repression and other words derived from it.
• « This event, in which a popular uprising in Paris spontaneously used force to avert the threat of royalist repression, remains the bank holidays of the French Republic to this day, commemorated as Bastille Day. »
• « Thus, barely five years into the Revolution, control was now in the hands of a small dictatorial committee of radicals who used violent repression to hold the nation together, continue the war against almost all of Europe and, soon, enact even more radical measures. »
• « In fact, the bloodiest repression seen during this era occurred far from Paris, and did not include any guillotines. »
• « According to the great Victorian psychologist Sigmund Freud, Victorianism was fundamentally based on the repression of natural instincts. »
• « Freud's theories revolved largely around sexual instincts and their repression; Freud invented several specific concepts such as the 'Oedipus complex', the idea that young boys sexually desire their mothers and fear their fathers' authority, and 'penis envy', the claim that girls are psychologically wounded by not having male genitalia, which he believed were fundamental to the human psyche. »
• « The events of 1741 in New York City illustrate the racial divide in British America, where panic among whites spurred great violence and repression against the feared slave population. »