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censor
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censor /cen·sor/ (sen´ser) the mental faculty that prevents unconscious thoughts and wishes from coming into consciousness unless disguised, as in dreams.
cen·sor (snsr)
n.
The hypothetical agent in the unconscious mind that is responsible for suppressing unconscious thoughts and wishes.
censor
Etymology: L, censere, to assess
1 a person who monitors or evaluates books, newspapers, plays, works of art, speech, or other means of expression in order to suppress certain kinds of information.
2 (in psychoanalysis) a psychic suppression that allows unconscious thoughts to rise to consciousness only if they are heavily disguised.
censor
a member of a committee on ethics or for critical examination of a medical or other society.


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Fallen Angels, third of the 1988 trio, could stand as the representative American book about the Vietnam war (largely shorn, as is Myers's wont, of censorable language).
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