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Suppression-backfire pattern: the structural tendency for

Suppression-backfire pattern: the structural tendency for suppressed emotions to increase in intensity and find indirect expression, because suppression blocks the output channel without reducing the generating input, creating internal pressure that eventually overwhelms the suppression mechanism

Why This Is a Pattern

Exemplifies emotional dynamics. Recurs in Wegner ironic process research, stress somatization, explosive outbursts after prolonged control.

Source Lessons

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Emotional suppression versus emotional avoidance

Suppression pushes emotions down while avoidance prevents them from arising — both have costs.

Connections

Exemplifies (1)

AxiomEmotion as Systematic Cognitive Modulator

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