PSY 301- PERSONALITY THEORIES I

Exercise I
• Select three of the defense mechanisms proposed by Freud. For each mechanism give an
example from your own life or someone you know who has used the defense mechanism
to reduce or avoid anxiety.

Displacement: One of my relatives loved children and large families. Unfourtanely, she died her
children after a fews days after giving birth, so she devoted her whole life to her nephews and
spent her time with them. He became extremely devoted to his nephews.

Repression: Last year, I didn't want to go to that doesn't like class, I suppressed it situation so
much that I forgot to set an alarm and missed the class.

Projection: When I went to a private teaching institution the year after high school, I did not like
one of my teachers' lessons at all and I didn't like his explanations about the subjects. I didn't ask
questions during the lessons. I felt very angry in that semester, but when everyone asked me why
I was so nervous, I said that the teacher did not like me and treated me badly.