abreaction

n. release of a repressed emotion (Psychology)

Abreaction is a psychoanalytical term for reliving an experience in order to purge it of its emotional excesses; a type of catharsis. Sometimes it is a method of becoming conscious of repressed traumatic events.Early in his career, psychoanalyst Carl Jung expressed interest in abreaction, or what he referred to as "trauma theory", but later found it had limitations concerning the treatment of neurosis. Jung stated that:"though traumata of clearly aetiological significance were occasionally present, the majority of them appeared very improbable. Many traumata were so unimportant, even so normal, that they could be regarded at most as a pretext for the neurosis. But what especially aroused my criticism was the fact that not a few traumata were simply inventions of fantasy and had never happened at all"..
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Abreaction /ab·re·ac·tion/ the reliving of an experience in such a way that previously repressed emotions associated with it are released. [more]Abreaction - Community and Resources

Noun
1. (psychoanalysis) purging of emotional tensions
(synonym) catharsis, katharsis
(hypernym) purge, purging
(derivation) abreact
(classification) psychoanalysis, analysis, depth psychology

n. abreaction, release of a repressed emotion (Psychology)