Sigmund Freud - Defense Mechanism

Defense Mechanism

[Defense Mechanism]

1. Repression

• Forces feeling / thoughts back into the unconscious
• Repressed materials have 3 facts :

             - Remains unaltered in consciousness
             - Force their way into consciousness
             - Expressed in disguised from ( ex) physical symptoms )


     2.  Reaction Formation

• A clever disguise for a repressed material
• The thought / emotion is expressed in its opposite way / form
• Exaggerated, obsessive, and compulsive

     3.  Displacement

• unacceptable urge is transferred to a less threatening object

     4.  Fixation

• Remaining in a more comfortable stage of psychosexual development ( ex) Oral fixation )

     5.  Regression

• Going back to an earlier stage of development                                                                               ( ex) An adult find his mother when he is in scared situation)

     6.  Projection

• Unwanted internal impulse is identified in an external object

     7.  Introjection

• Incorperating positive qualities of another person into their own ego.

     8.  Sublimation

• Repression of a genital aim by substituting a cultural or social aim