Definitions of Colonies: 1. A group of emigrants or their descendants who settle in a distant territory but remain subject to or closely associated with the parent country. 2. A territory thus settled.
Definition of 'suppress'. suppress (sÉpres ) If someone in authority suppresses an activity, they prevent it from continuing, by using force or making it illegal. ...drug traffickers, who continue to flourish despite international attempts to suppress them.
Discussion. Repression (sometimes called motivated forgetting) is a primary ego defense mechanism since the other ego mechanisms use it in tandem with other methods. Thus defense is often 'repression + ....'.Repression is unconscious. When we deliberately and consciously try to push away thoughts, this is suppression.In Freudian terminology, repression is the restraining of a cathexis by an anti-cathexis.It is not all bad.hus defense is often 'repression + ....'. Repression is unconscious. When we deliberately and consciously try to push away thoughts, this is suppression. In Freudian terminology, repression is the restraining of a cathexis by an anti-cathexis. It is not all bad.