(1) No hint of repressed sexuality is undelivered from the analyst's couch of his interpretation.(2) We get a sense of her insecurity, her introverted nature, and her repressed sexuality.(3) Theatre's capacity to regress us to childhood may also open the other scene, the unconscious, revealing repressed desires and forgotten fears.(4) Psychoanalysis has focused on how the play dramatizes, as its raison d' u00eatre, the problems of the unconscious and repressed desire.(5) Consequently, when characters share on-screen space, it is almost claustrophobic because of the heavy presence of repressed longings and unspoken desires.(6) Many of the films of this period cut to the flesh and blood of European colonialism, compelling us to reflect on our latent racism, our repressed sexuality, and the tacit assumptions of our intellectual heritage.(7) Is it really a ghost story, or is it instead a potent psychological exploration of a Victorian woman's battle with the demons of her own repressed sexuality?(8) It's the end of the 1950s, and you know what that means: All the repressed sexuality that's been lurking under the starched skirts and argyle cardigans is coming to a full boil.(9) Impersonal, they hint at repressed yearnings for intimacy.(10) During the filming of Rebel, sexual tensions among Nicholas Ray, Natalie Wood, James Dean and Sal Mineo eerily reflected the repressed sexual desires inherent among the film's characters.(11) Clare Higgins invests the widowed teacher with a repressed sensuality that evokes the great Anna Magnani.(12) Its founder, Massimo Mensi believed that u2018we must put a stop to the notion that madness is something to be hidden away and repressed u2026 and admit that it is another world, close to us and part of us.u2019(13) Based on a 1983 novel by Elfriede Jelinek in which she drew on her relationship with a domineering mother, and on her own repressed sexuality, the film is a searing study of its title character's sexual pathology.(14) The surfacing of repressed memories to consciousness entails a codification that demands an expert listener.(15) Although the script never directly challenged the strict standards of the censors, it hardly needs saying that the repressed desires of nuns was not a common - or safe - subject for a British film in 1947.(16) Ellie thus fits the stereotype of the repressed career woman badly in need of a man to make her a complete woman.
