German edit

Etymology edit

Coined by Johann Friedrich Herbart in 1824[1][2] and popularized by Sigmund Freud.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /fɛɐ̯ˈdʁɛŋʊŋ/
  • Audio:(file)

Noun edit

Verdrängung f (genitive Verdrängung, plural Verdrängungen)

  1. displacement
  2. replacement
  3. (psychoanalysis) repression, suppression

Declension edit

References edit

  1. ^ Valerie Sinason, Ashley Conway, editors (2021), Trauma and Memory[1], Routledge, →ISBN
  2. ^ Helmut E. Lück (2018) Die psychologische Hintertreppe (in German), Verlag Herder GmbH, →ISBN, page 61

Further reading edit