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n. - (psychoanalysis) purging of emotional tensions.

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  • They have already seen what abreaction to price can do to price.
  • But now it is time for the return of the repressed and the joyful abreaction of real democracy.
  • My abreaction is to both what they maintain tikun olam in effect mandates and to many of them personally.
  • Praying to their Master: sooner or later an abreaction, each one, all over this frost and harrowed city ...
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