scotomization.
According to some psychoanalytic theories, the mental ability to delete and forget a trauma or overwhelming event.
Meaning & usage
According to some psychoanalytic theories, the mental ability to delete and forget a trauma or overwhelming event.
Where this word comes from
The word was borrowed from the word scotoma (blind spot) by psychiatrists in the 1920s. By surface analysis, scot- + -omize + -ate + -ion.
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