defense mechanisms

Question 1

can conflicts develop between parts of the personality?

Answer 1

yes

Question 2

what did freud believe?

Answer 2

• the three different parts of the consciousness can be in conflict
• these conflicts then lead to anxiety
• then the egos job to mediate between the id and the superego to reduce the anxiety
• it does this by using one of several defense mechanisms

Question 3

what is repression?

Answer 3

involves the ego stopping unwanted and possibly painful thoughts from becoming conscious

Question 4

what is denial?

Answer 4

when a threatening event or unwanted reality is ignored and blocked from conscious awareness

Question 5

what is displacement?

Answer 5

happens when a negative impulse is redirected onto something else