PSYC 2740 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Weaning, Toilet Training, Castration Anxiety
12 Mar 2013
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Efforts to defend onself from anxiety are called defense mechanisms. Objective anxiety is fear; this occurs in respond to a real, external threat to the person. Neurotic anxiety occurs when there is a direct conflict between the id and ego; the danger is that the ego may lose control over an unacceptable desire of the id. Defense mechanisms protect the ego and minimize anxiety and distress repression refers to the process of preventing unacceptable thoughts, feelings or urges from reaching conscious awareness. People have a preferred view of themselves and will defend against any unflattering changes or blows to that self view. Denial is when a person insists that things are not the way they seem; it involves refusing to see the facts. Deliberately redirecting ones anger is not displacement even though someone might do this to manage a situation.
