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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November 17th 2024

visual agraphia

an impaired ability to write resulting from a failure to recognize letters, numbers, or words. The condition is caused by lesions in the occipitoparietal area of the brain. See agraphia.