DEFINITION REPRESSIONis the basic defence mechanism which transfers (represses)unacceptabledrives, wishes or memories to the unconscious. Repression is an unconscious mechanism which is not the same as the  suppression or avoidance that an individual uses to purposefully forget about something. Freud believes that repressed drives and wishes retain energy and constantly try to  break through to the conscious level. Due to this, a single act or repression is not enough and has to be maintained through resistance. Resistance begins operating when repressed desires threaten to surface at the  conscious level, which increase the anxiety. individual’s Anxiety is unpleasant, causing the person to resort to repression and resistance and  other defence mechanisms to ensure that repressed content remains unconscious. (Other defence mechanisms reinforce the resistance against unacceptable psychic content trying to enter consciousness). All other defence mechanisms are geared at keeping repressed and anxiety  provoking material at an unconscious level. (Primary function = support resistance against repressed material). ego’s o b. Projection An attempt to keep unacceptable drives and wishes unconscious by accusing others of having those same unacceptable drives and wishes. (Projecting their own wishes onto another individual). DEFINITION PROJECTIONis an attempt to keep unconscious psychic material unconscious the bysubjectively ‘changing’ focus to the drives and wishes of otherpeople An individual who has unacceptable drives and wishes which are their own, will see  them as the wishes of others. Projection is the attempt to change neurotic or moral anxiety into reality  individual’s anxiety. Once the individual has created a external danger (other people whom ‘real’ they experience as threatening their moral values) the individual can attack the danger. In attempts to do something about the external danger, the individual may use the  defence mechanism of reaction formation. c. Reaction formation An individual will use fanatical or excessive behaviour to give the impression that they have the opposite desire to the desire that they really have.
DEFINITION REPRESSIONis the basic defence mechanism which transfers (represses)unacceptabledrives, wishes or memories to the unconscious.  Repression is an unconscious mechanism which is not the same as the suppression or avoidance that an individual uses to purposefully forget about something.  Freud believes that repressed drives and wishes retain energy and constantly try to break through to the conscious level. Due to this, a single act or repression is not enough and has to be maintained through resistance.  Resistance begins operating when repressed desires threaten to surface at the conscious level, which increase the individual’s anxiety.  Anxiety is unpleasant, causing the person to resort to repression and resistance and other defence mechanisms to ensure that repressed content remains unconscious. (Other defence mechanisms reinforce the resistance against unacceptable psychic content trying to enter consciousness).  All other defence mechanisms are geared at keeping repressed and anxiety provoking material at an unconscious level. o (Primary function = support ego’s resistance against repressed material). b. Projection An attempt to keep unacceptable drives and wishes unconscious by accusing others of having those same unacceptable drives and wishes. (Projecting their own wishes onto another individual). DEFINITION PROJECTIONis an attempt to keep unconscious psychic material unconscious bysubjectively ‘changing’ the focus to the drives and wishes of otherpeople  An individual who has unacceptable drives and wishes which are their own, will see them as the wishes of others.  Projection is the individual’s attempt to change neurotic or moral anxiety into reality anxiety. Once the individual has created a ‘real’ external danger (other people whom they experience as threatening their moral values) the individual can attack the danger.  In attempts to do something about the external danger, the individual may use the defence mechanism of reaction formation. c. Reaction formation An individual will use fanatical or excessive behaviour to give the impression that they have the opposite desire to the desire that they really have.
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