APA Dictionary of Psychology

renunciation

Updated on 04/19/2018
n.
  1. in general, the act of giving something up or denying oneself.
  2. in classical psychoanalytic theory, a refusal of the ego to follow impulses of the id, or a sublimation of those urges. —renounce vb.
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