EDUCATION UGC NET
MOTIVATION AND EMOTION
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Self-explanatory
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Self-deceptive
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Self-expressive
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Self-dependant
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Detailed explanation-1: -Anna Freud defined defense mechanisms as “unconscious resources used by the ego” to decrease internal stress ultimately. Patients often devise these unconscious mechanisms to decrease conflict within themselves, specifically between the superego and id.
Detailed explanation-2: -Defense mechanisms operate at an unconscious level and help ward off unpleasant feelings (i.e., anxiety) or make good things feel better for the individual. Ego-defense mechanisms are natural and normal.
Detailed explanation-3: -Repression is the unconscious blocking of unpleasant emotions, impulses, memories, and thoughts from your conscious mind. First described by Sigmund Freud, the purpose of this defense mechanism is to try to minimize feelings of guilt and anxiety.
Detailed explanation-4: -Some of the major defense mechanisms described by psychoanalysts are the following: 1. Repression is the withdrawal from consciousness of an unwanted idea, affect, or desire by pushing it down, or repressing it, into the unconscious part of the mind.