repression resistance

n. in psychoanalysis, the resistance deployed by a patient in order to maintain repression of unacceptable impulses. This may manifest in the patient’s forgetting of events, in an impeded flow of free associations, or in the patient’s application of interpretations offered by the analyst to others but not to himself or herself. Also called ego resistance. Compare id resistance; superego resistance.

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Psychology term of the day

May 8th 2024

PI

1. abbreviation for prescribing information. See labeling.

2. abbreviation for proactive interference.

3. abbreviation for progressive interval. See progressive-interval schedule.