Defense Mechanisms - Psychology of Personality

Repression

Ego tries to push material out of consciousness

Sublimation

Ego channels threatening impuleses into socially accepting ones

(ex: agression to sports)

Displacement

Channeling impulses to non-threatening objects

(ex: abused woman starts to abuse her children)

Denial

refusal to accept certain facts exist

(ex: widower still sets the table for 2)

Reaction formation

hiding threatening urges by acting in a manner opposite of our unconscious desires

(ex: antiporn crusade leader watches it himself)

Projection

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