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unpleasure

n. in classical psychoanalytic theory, the psychic pain, tension, and ego suffering that is consciously felt when instinctual needs and wishes, such as hunger and sex, are blocked by the ego and denied gratification. [translation of German Unlust, “reluctance” or “listlessness”]

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