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abreact

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ab·re·act (br-kt)
v.
To release repressed emotions by acting out the situation causing the conflict, as in words, behavior, or the imagination.

abre·action n.

abreact.


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Before his recent move to Eugene, he was the artistic director of the Abreact, a theater group in Detroit.
Because these ruins are the product of a writing of melancholy--the failure to abreact loss through the work of mourning--they have the dialectical force to shake our beliefs in the ontological certainty and stability of late-capitalist reality.
Grade 5 hypnotizability) and their ability to abreact fantasy that they cannot distinguish from reality.
 
 
 
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