self-punishment
Example Sentences
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Even though I’d moved past my crush by then, I felt a surge of embarrassment that quickly morphed into self-punishment.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 4, 2024
Given the painful infertility Pine and her partner have endured themselves, the decision to place herself in a maternity hospital may sound to many like a unique form of self-punishment.
From BBC • May 4, 2022
"As kind of a form of self-punishment, but also trying to keep things a little lighter, I told all the guys that I was going to shave it off whenever we won."
From Fox News • Aug. 26, 2021
“As kind of a form of self-punishment, but also trying to keep things a little lighter, I told all the guys that I was going to shave it off whenever we won.”
From Washington Post • Aug. 25, 2021
The determination not derived from the Unc. is, as far as I can see, invariably a stream of thought in reaction against the unconscious wish, e.g., a self-punishment.
From Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners by Freud, Sigmund
