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- noun genetics The
inactivation of arepressor gene
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Some say that this literary derepression is my greatest curse as well as my greatest asset, in that I can write voluminously and very much more quickly than I can think.
Writing Maxine 2009
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I use the term derepression to denote counterculturalists 'desire to reverse what they saw as the subordination of "nature" to culture, which, in their view, represented not progress, but decline.
Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583 2007
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The fantasy of the 1920s sophisticates, that cultural salvation would spring from the margins, grew out of the ferment Bederman describes and stood as a temporally specific manifestation of modern bohemians 'faith in derepression.
Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583 2007
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10It is important to note that hippies did not use the term derepression to describe their activism.
Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583 2007
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8I find the term derepression particularly useful because it captures the influence of popularized Freudianism on American bohemianism. 5 Often not attuned to the finer distinctions of Freud's theories in their original form, midcentury bohemians emphatically rejected Freud's argument for the sometime-necessity of repression of desire.
Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583 2007
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A student of Marcuse has made the investigation of derepression, in its Jungian sense, his life work.
Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583 2007
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In derepression I find a term sufficiently broad to match the scope of hippies 'social concerns, and one that foregrounds their prioritizing of the transformation of consciousness over the instrumentalist approaches favored by the New Left.
Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583 2007
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Embarked as they were on a project of derepression, many of the Digger brothers, like sizeable numbers of other Movement men, measured their status relative to one another in terms of their fidelity to the ideal of "sexual revolution."
Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583 2007
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Although Marcuse wrote of desublimation rather than derepression, the latter captures the sense in which many American bohemians understood Freudian concepts. 6
Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583 2007
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They, like many in the New Left, used words such as liberation, deschooling, deconditioning, and reimprinting to denote their project of transforming Everyman into the Noble Savage. 8 The several advantages of derepression will be lost if readers do not take care to note that this term represents my interpretation of their activism, and not theirs. 9
Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583 2007
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