The Ego and the Mechanisms of DefenceThis book deals with one particular problem that is with the ways and means by which the ego wards off unpleasure and anxiety, and exercises control over impulsive behavior, affects, and instinctive urges. It is a major contribution to psychoanalytic psychology. |
Contents
THE EGOS DEFENSIVE OPERATIONS CONSIDERED AS AN OBJECT | |
THE MECHANISMS OF DEFENSE | |
ORIENTATION OF THE PROCESSES OF DEFENSE ACCORDING TO | |
Part II | |
DENIAL INFANTASY | |
RESTRICTION OF THE | |
IDENTIFICATION WITH THE AGGRESSOR | |
A FORM OF ALTRUISM | |
THE EGO AND THE ID AT PUBERTY | |
INSTINCTUAL ANXIETY DURING PUBERTY | |
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The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence Anna Freud,Taylor & Francis Group,The Institute of Psychoanalysis No preview available - 2019 |
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activity adolescent adult affects aggressive impulses altruistic animals anticathexis anxiety of conscience asceticism attitude become behavior boy’s castration anxiety cathected cathexis childhood conflict consciousness danger defense against instinct defense mechanisms defensive measures defensive process denial displacement ego institutions employed external fantasy father feelings fixation free association Freud fulfillment genital Helene Deutsch Hypomania hysteria id contents id derivatives id impulses identification infantile ego inhibition instinctual anxiety instinctual demands instinctual impulses instinctual processes instinctual wishes intellectual interpretation introjection jealousy latency period libidinal libido lion love objects master means methods of defense modes of defense mother normal objective anxiety observation obsessional neurosis particular patient patient’s penis envy phases play pleasure pleasure principle pregenital prohibited projection psychic psychoanalytic puberty punishment reaction formation reality relation repression resistance restriction result reversal sense of guilt sexual Standard Edition subject’s superego anxiety technique transference transformed unconscious WAELDER Wilhelm Reich