0 present participle of relive
1 to remember clearly an experience that happened in the past:
They are reliving the past story and consciously modelling their travels after the settings and thoughts of the philosophers of the past.
Abreaction is characterized, intones the instructor, by a literal reliving, moment by moment and in real time, of the formerly repressed memory.
Intuitively, reliving the emotional shocks over and over again in dreams would not seem to be exactly what traumatized people are psychologically in need of.
This explains why the record of past events is experienced as a kind of "reliving" when the event comes back into consciousness.
They also described a wide spectrum of memory phenomena, ranging from the process of "reliving" to a more memory-like narration of past events.
But psychotherapy is, in large part, precisely about discussions with physically absent but psychically present objects of emotion, and the transformative power of reliving and reforming past relationships through transference.
They are not on the site of the wall, but youngsters scramble up it and one can see that they are reliving that period.
These children are reliving the lives of heroes of history and literature.
