Stauung

It is a special case of Lipps's psychic stasis or damming up (_psychische Stauung_), always produced when the psychic activities are at the same time drawn in two or more different directions.

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism Havelock Ellis 1899

To attempt to explain modesty by dismissing it as merely an example of psychic paralysis, of _Stauung_, is to elude the problem by the statement of what is little more than a truism.

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism Havelock Ellis 1899