abreact

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discharge bad feelings or tension through verbalization

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language serves as a substitute for action; by its help, an affect can be 'abreacted'" (p.
An Overlooked Sexual Element in the Breuer-Anna O. Case
The story is not abreacted for Quentin through telling; instead, he experiences it as an event in endless repetition.
The poetics of ruptured mnemosis: telling encounters in William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!
Freud and Breuer suggest that "language serves as a substitute for action; by its help, an affect can be 'abreacted' almost as effectively" (8).
Deliberate unknowing and strategic retelling: the ravages of cultural desire in Charles Brockden Brown's Edgar Huntly
Another believes in the abreaction of all emotion--and so he must have abreacted all his own emotions.
The Relationship Among Substance Abuse Counselors' Spiritual Well-Being, Values, and Self-Actualizing Characteristics and the Impact on Clients' Spiritual Well-Being
Freud labels these memories "parthogenic," and he notes that hysterical patients surfer from incompletely abreacted psychical traumas.
READING THE WOUND: WOLLSTONECRAFT'S WRONGS OF WOMAN, OR MARIA AND TRAUMA THEORY
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