abreaction

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Yet for all the alcohol consumed and tears shed (not to mention the sleepless nights) I feel as if an abreaction is necessary, if only for catharsis.

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  • Family names survive only slightly changed (in The Easter Parade his mother Dookie appears as the only vaguely fictionalised Pookie), and real-life arrangements of sisters, husbands and wives and colleagues all find their too-perfect reflections, reappearing so compulsively that only a Freudian term can describe it: abreaction, the emotional release following the recall of a painful repressed episode. —  Culture | guardian.co.uk
  • Yet for all the alcohol consumed and tears shed (not to mention the sleepless nights) I feel as if an abreaction is necessary, if only for catharsis. —  Like Anna Karina's Sweater
 

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