PSYC 2530 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Oral Stage, Ego Psychology, Psychodynamics

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2530
• Professor: Jocelyn B.Proulx

Document Summary

The ego can take measures to defend itself from the anxiety o defense mechanisms. The ego"s way of handling a threatening thought or an unacceptable impulse to protect itself and minimize anxiety and distress. When a couple breaks up they usually hate each other right ater most oten used defenses. Mentally isolate a threatening though by keeping it separate from other thoughts and feelings. Intellectualizaion: when we isolate the emoion so that we can experience thoughts or memories without the disturbing feelings. When we refuse to believe or even acknowledge a threatening or traumaic event, or the emoions associated with the event. A person who has either thought about performing or who has already performed an unacceptable behaviour atempts to nullify that acion with a later acion. We atribute our own disturbing or unacceptable impulse to another person. The target of that impulse is changed into a more acceptable one sublimaion.