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Assignment On Defence Mechanism: Edu 10 Edu 102: Childhood and Growing Up

The document discusses various defense mechanisms according to Freudian psychology. It defines a defense mechanism as a reaction to frustration that protects individuals from anxiety caused by mental conflicts by disguising their true motives. The document then lists and describes 14 common defense mechanisms, including repression, regression, projection, sublimation, reaction formation, displacement, rationalization, compensation, fantasy, identification, sour grapes mechanism, isolation, seclusiveness, and overcompensation. It concludes that while defense mechanisms may temporarily relieve anxiety, they do not resolve the underlying conflicts and instead conceal the real problems.

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Assignment On Defence Mechanism: Edu 10 Edu 102: Childhood and Growing Up

The document discusses various defense mechanisms according to Freudian psychology. It defines a defense mechanism as a reaction to frustration that protects individuals from anxiety caused by mental conflicts by disguising their true motives. The document then lists and describes 14 common defense mechanisms, including repression, regression, projection, sublimation, reaction formation, displacement, rationalization, compensation, fantasy, identification, sour grapes mechanism, isolation, seclusiveness, and overcompensation. It concludes that while defense mechanisms may temporarily relieve anxiety, they do not resolve the underlying conflicts and instead conceal the real problems.

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ASSIGNMENT ON DEFENCE MECHANISM

EDU 10 EDU 102: CHILDHOOD AND GROWING UP

Date of Submission: 26.09.2016

DEFENCE MECHANISM
INTRODUCTION
A defence mechanism is a reaction to frustration that defends an individual against
anxiety due to mental conflict and serves to disguise his motives. It prevents him from knowing
his real motives. According to Freud the demands of the unconscious Id and the conscious Ego
and of the Ego and the Super Ego or conscience, may conflict with one another..They operate by
distorting reality and diverting the natural expression, of psychic energy. They are the following:
CONTENT
1. Repression: It’s putting out of mind, thoughts, and desires that provokes anxiety.
2. Regression: It consists in relapsing to infantile, experience or retreating to inadequate
childish forms of behavior due to mal-adjustment.
3. Protection: It consists in ascribing one’s failure to another person’s fault.
4. Sublimation: satisfying an impulse (eg. aggression) with a substitute object.
5. Reaction formation: It consists in expressing a motive in a disguised form that is
directly opposed to it.
6. Displacement: Disguising the goal of a motive by substituting another in place of it.
7. Rationalization: Vindicating ones wrong action by appealing to a general moral
principle to avoid self-critism and social reproach.
8. Compensation; compensating for the loss of self esteem in one activity by efforts in
some other activity.
9. Fantasy: Gratifying a frustrated motive by indulging in daydreaming.
10. Identification: Frustrated psychic energy sometimes gets satisfaction in identification
with another famous person.
11. Sour grapes mechanism: A person who is defeated will not compete, he adjust with
unpleasant situation.
12. Isolation :Refusing to relate ones particular way of thinking
13. Seclusiveness: running away from ones difficulties due to ones inabilities to cope up with
them.
14. Overcompensation: overcoming ones inferiority or loss of self respect due to a personal
defect by doing more than removing the defect.

CONCLUSION

These defence machanisms disguise the frustrated motives and cannot adequately adjust a person to a
situation. They are directed at anxiety, and relieve it to a certain extent. But they are not directed
at the conflict of motives and cannot resolve it. They conceal the real problem.
REFERENCES
❖ Christopher A Kearney et al, Abnormal Psychology and life-A dimensional
approach.PP.31,Table 2.3
❖ U N Sinha, A manual of Psychology.

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