foreclosure (Verwerfung/forclusion)
The psychoanalytic term for the repudiation of a specific *desire. It differs from *repression in that the incompatible desire is not merely prevented from entering the consciousness, all trace of its existence is denied, as if the thought had never arisen. In his reading of ... ...
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