ENGL 200 Lecture Notes - Tums, Scoot, The Main Point
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The racial contract will be used on monday and must be integrated into the discussion involving the chaneysville incident. Ch. 10 - the seven kinds of denial denial: the suspension of belief; usually in awareness of the truth. In many ways it can be self- deception. In the chapter it talks about how denial usually shows up in the form of someone trying to run away from threatening information. If you can cope, the next thing that must be repressed is emotion. Denial of emotion is the denial of affect. Ultimately it is a defense mechanism utilized to protect us; in this case from information and overload rather than a physical threat. In the case of the chaneysville incident, we are dealing with a paradoxical form of denial where it is both beneficial and harmful. Some scholars believe the 9 segments represent the 9 months of pregnancy in the.
