“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Considerable energy is used to continue the repression as the pressure from beneath grows.

[...] You do not dare allow your intuitions full reign even when you paint at such times for fear that they will carry up with them these repressed feelings.

[...] At the same time you adopted a more hard line in your relationship with those in the family, trying to avoid all emotional situations which might trigger a release of the repressed feelings.

You would be grateful then when Ruburt did originate such a crisis, simply because the pressure behind the repressed feelings was more painful then, so that it was defeating its own purpose. [...]

[...] You were rather repressed at that period, frightened about your own work, and sometimes you would ignore Ruburt’s occasional sexual advances when you happened to be in your studio. [...] Or worse—supposing your repressed sexuality was repressed because of your joint work, and supposing you fell in love with someone else, and became sexually aroused for another?

[...] I want to remind you however that I went to considerable pains to give you some of the important reasons why you both had a tendency, a strong one, toward repression. Why Ruburt began by repressing unpleasant ideas, and why you initially began by repressing hopeful ones.

When you were ill and did not have sexual relations often, he feared that his desires then could even lead him to physical unfaithfulness, and so on all counts the habit of repression and of physical repression also built up. [...]

This will automatically break down some projections, clear the air, but more than this the repressed energy being used to prevent communication, open communication, is physically and psychically released.

[...] You were not living clearly in the sensual, physical world, in that large amounts of energy were being used to repress physical communication.

As repressions built up then emotional encounters did seem to be unpleasant, for only when one of you became thoroughly uncomfortable and desperate did you really open emotionally to the other. [...]

The unseen self is not a dungeon of repressed ideas and feelings, dangerous to behold, but the fountainhead of individual existence, upon which our present physical survival is dependent. [...] This does not mean that we do not repress fears and desires beneath consciousness. It means that we must allow ourselves greater flexibility, look into ourselves, admit the fears and release the energy used in repression. As you will see later in this book, dreams can often release such repressed material for your conscious examination.

[...] In her mind, Freud’s ideas of repressed subconscious material merged with religious teachings of hell and the origin of sin. [...]

[...] The ego would see no reason for such a memory and on general principles attempts to repress them.

[...] (Last night.) Now these repressions operated constantly in daily life. The effort required to repress such material is tremendous, and the muscular motions affected.

[...] He led a very active physical life however, and to some degree then could work off some of the emotional feelings that were repressed. [...]

(“Are these repressions still operating?”

[...] You must stop believing that the inner self is a dungeon of unsavory repressed emotion. It does contain some repressed emotion. [...]

Many habits of repression come about because you are afraid to make conscious decisions, or simply do not want to be bothered with them, and certainly all probable events do not attract you to any important degree. [...]

[...] They have been frowned upon in your society, however, so they are most often repressed. [...]

[...] Certain incidents, trivial in themselves, will at times carry a tremendous charge, not necessarily because he is repressing thoughts about the particular incident, but because the incident recalls unresolved past issues that he has psychically associated with it.

If the local symptom does not disappear or subside within a day, then there are hidden or repressed elements connected with it, to which he is still reacting. [...]

[...] He has learned to repress feelings, and he believed heartily that repression was necessary to his work, to maintain your privacy, to provide time, to cut out distractions, and to focus attention and expression.

[...] It needs encouragement, not demands—but above all, let him concentrate upon expression rather than repression. [...]

The sessions, reinstated twice a week, will automatically help, because they involve expression rather than repression.

[...] Repression becomes the order of the day. The species however will always react against repression, no matter what its source, and so will the individual. [...]

Mental activity does demand more energy of one kind than does physical activity, and the reason here is a rather strange one, in that in many respects creative work demands the extra energy used in a sort of repression. [...]

They are expressed yet they are repressed from, or they are kept from, active complete physical construction by the very act of artistic creation. [...]

A good relationship between you frees repressed emotion on both of your parts, which then pours over into your work and illuminates all of your interior and exterior landscapes both symbolically and literally.

[...] But if you ignore the feeling or pretend that it does not exist, then it is repressed within you and it draws to it all those other repressed violences; minute, insignificant details, seemingly, that gain charge until they fill you and must be expressed. [...]

[...] But when this is not spontaneously admitted and when out of fear of evil it is repressed this is when it gains additional charge. [...]

[...] The repressive nature of Christian thought in the Middle Ages, for example, is well known. [...]

Both the nightmare experience and the dream were partially triggered by our last session (on March 4), of course, and served to show Ruburt why he had begun to cut down on some (underlined) of his own psychic experience, inspiration, and expression—a policy reflected in the repressed nature of bodily expression. [...]

[...] It became his duty to repress spontaneous feelings that might lead him astray. [...]

[...] Nevertheless, beneath there is a denial of involvement, and a strong desire for permanency, both of which are repressed, and the stronger the efforts put forth by the ego to repress these tendencies, then these tendencies will explode with inadequate stimuli. [...]

[...] Secondary personalities are caused by repressed emotions on a psychological basis that attempts to maintain an ascendancy. [...]

[...] I tried to remember what Seth had said, and follow the feelings through so I wouldn’t repress any of them....” [...]

[...] It is not that they are so fearful in themselves, but the effort to repress them gives them additional charge. [...]

Now: Books on positive thinking alone, while sometimes beneficial, usually do not take into consideration the habitual nature of negative feelings, aggressions, or repressions. [...]

[...] At no time will you be told to repress them, to ignore them. [...]