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Understanding Defense Mechanisms

Psychoanalysis involves interpreting personal and social experiences using structures of personality and their relation to defense mechanisms. Defense mechanisms are unconscious strategies used to protect against anxiety from unacceptable thoughts or feelings. They operate at an unconscious level to ward off unpleasant feelings like anxiety or make good things feel better. Common defense mechanisms include projection, displacement, reaction formation, and sublimation.

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Understanding Defense Mechanisms

Psychoanalysis involves interpreting personal and social experiences using structures of personality and their relation to defense mechanisms. Defense mechanisms are unconscious strategies used to protect against anxiety from unacceptable thoughts or feelings. They operate at an unconscious level to ward off unpleasant feelings like anxiety or make good things feel better. Common defense mechanisms include projection, displacement, reaction formation, and sublimation.

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PSYCHOANALYSIS

INTERPRET PERSONAL AND SOCIAL EXPERIENCES


USING STRUCTURES OF PERSONALITY IN RELATION
WITH DEFENSE MECHANISM.
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• WHAT DO YOU USUALLY DO WHENEVER YOU
ARE UPSET IN A PARTICULAR SITUATION?
• EXAMPLE:
• 1. YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED BY YOUR
PARENTS TO ATTEND A PARTY?
• 2. HOW ABOUT YOUR CLASSMATES DO NOT
ALLOW YOU TO COPY THEIR ANSWER?
•
DEFENSE MECHANISMS
BY SAUL MCLEOD,
• SIGMUND FREUD (1894, 1896) NOTED A NUMBER OF EGO DEFENSES WHICH HE
REFERS TO THROUGHOUT HIS WRITTEN WORKS. HIS DAUGHTER ANNA (1936)
DEVELOPED THESE IDEAS AND ELABORATED ON THEM, ADDING TEN OF HER
OWN. MANY PSYCHOANALYSTS HAVE ALSO ADDED FURTHER TYPES OF EGO
DEFENSES.
•
• DEFENSE MECHANISMS ARE PSYCHOLOGICAL STRATEGIES THAT ARE
UNCONSCIOUSLY USED TO PROTECT A PERSON FROM ANXIETY ARISING FROM
UNACCEPTABLE THOUGHTS OR FEELINGS.
WHY DO WE NEED EGO DEFENSES?
WE USE DEFENSE MECHANISMS TO PROTECT OURSELVES
FROM FEELINGS OF ANXIETY OR GUILT, WHICH ARISE
BECAUSE WE FEEL THREATENED, OR BECAUSE OUR ID OR
SUPEREGO BECOMES TOO DEMANDING.
DEFENSE MECHANISMS OPERATE AT AN UNCONSCIOUS
LEVEL AND HELP WARD OFF UNPLEASANT FEELINGS (I.E.,
ANXIETY) OR MAKE GOOD THINGS FEEL BETTER FOR THE
INDIVIDUAL.
EGO-DEFENSE MECHANISMS ARE NATURAL
AND NORMAL. WHEN THEY GET OUT OF
PROPORTION (I.E., USED WITH FREQUENCY),
NEUROSES DEVELOP, SUCH AS ANXIETY
STATES, PHOBIAS, OBSESSIONS, OR
HYSTERIA.
EXAMPLES OF DEFENSES MECHANISMS
THERE ARE A LARGE NUMBER OF DEFENSE MECHANISMS;
THE MAIN ONES ARE SUMMARIZED BELOW.
FROM OUR DISCUSSION WHAT DO YOU
THINK IS THE CONNECTION OF
STRUCTURE OF PERSONALITY TO
•DEFENSE
GROUP ACTIVITY: MECHANISM?
GROUP THE STUDENT INTO FOUR GROUPS.
• ASK THEM TO CITE ONE (1) SITUATION HAPPENED IN THEIR LIFE WHEREIN
THEY USED DEFENSE MECHANISM.
• LET THE GROUPS IDENTIFY THE ID, EGO, AND SUPEREGO IN THAT SITUATION
GIVEN BY THE STUDENTS.

•
• ROLE PLAYING EXAMPLE OF DEFENSE MECHANISM
• A. PROJECTION
• B. DISPLACEMENT
• C. REACTION FORMATION
• D. SUBLIMATION
•

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