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Sublimation: Sometimes, when I'm feeling angry, I run workouts harder or more recklessly as a way to channel my frustrations into my sport instead of being aggressive with others.

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Denial: Knowing you are down by 5 goals with a minute left in the game and you think that you will still win the game. You are in denial because you don't believe that you are about to lose and that you're season will end. You don't want something so good to come to an end.

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Sublimation:

Someone who has extreme anger or anxiety can decide to channel that those emotions into running.

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Ratinalizatioln:

When I got good grade for the first test of the semester, I tell my self that it is okay because it is the begging of the semester and I can brig up my grade after.

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Denial:

The famous dog, Hachi, waited for his owner every single day (9 years) knowing that he had passed away.

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Rationalization

A boy who makes fun of his friend may justify his actions by claiming that he is "just joking." In actuality the boy is being a bully and even though they may be considered 'friends' someone's feelings could still get hurt.

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Denial After someone you love and care about very much passes away and you're forced to either recognize that it's happened and move on with life, or face denial that it's even happened, telling yourself day after day that it was all a lie.

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Projection:

Whenever a teacher is angry about something they think that the whole class is angry and they perceive every statement as rude.

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Denial

When someone very close, for example a family member or a friend passes away, you do not take their death as serious. Instead you still think that they are alive, yet they're gone. You have a hard time dealing with the fact that the person is gone.

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Denial

When you want to quit smoking cigarettes but in reality you can't, so you tell yourself that you love smoking cigarettes and you never want to quit.

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Sublimation

Getting really pissed off at my friends and releasing my anger at swim practice later that day. (That was the fastest and fiercest I've swum at practice in a while).

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Denial: You do drugs every other day and claim your not a drug "addict" because you don't do drugs everyday. However you actually are addicted to drugs but your just in denial.

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Intellectualization: When you are in a group that disagrees with your unsaid opinion about a topic. Because you feel like you are in the "minority" during the conversation and any different opinion will be anahilated, you decide to find something of their side to comment on instead of stating your own opinion.

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Denial:

When your friend crushes on a guy but states that the person doesn't feel the same. In reality, as her friends viewing the situation from the outside, we notice that they share a mutual feeling towards each other. Denial takes over the person to remove any upset emotions if there weren't any shared feeling.

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Denial:
Many students experienced a terrible and shocking grade on a test, quiz, or an assignment. Typically, students blame the problem on their teacher for not teaching them well, their friends for distracting their studying, or the test being too difficult. For the last example, this would be an example of "projection" because they expect and assume that everyone also did horrible and "rationalize" that the test was very challenging for everyone and blame it on the teacher's fault.

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Displacement:

So after a break up, a person could be super down and super angry and snap at friends who are trying to be supportive. Although the person is mad at the ex, he/she displaces the anger on the friends. The relationship can suffer as the friends will be hesitant to try and help in the future and be less kind to him/her in general.

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Rationalization

Saying that I will only have one cookie because one can't hurt, but in reallity I will have like a whole batch of cookies

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Denial:

You tell others you got into all the colleges you wanted to get into.

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Denial

When your wife gives birth to a child and the child is mocha colored but you're both white and you just think that your wife must be 3.07% African American and forgot to tell you. Your wife would never cheat on you. Never.

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Rationalization: After a break up, many people will reach out to their ex, saying "I just want to see how they're doing." But in reality, they actually want to see if they can get back together.

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Projection

In a group of girls, when one girl is annoyed with someone, that girl assumes that all the girls are annoyed with that person

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Displacement

This morning, I was feeling annoyed, tired and simply frustrated right from waking up because I did not have a good sleep and didn't have time to eat breakfast so when my mother was trying to talk to me and converse about something, I just ignored her and left the house, Hopefully, I can manage my emotion better so that this doesn't become more detrimental in the future.

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Projection:

When my sister is emotional and on her period, she expects that everybody be equally emotional and sensitive regarding whatever dilemma is on her mind when really, nobody cares. e.g. her boy problems

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Rationalization

An example would be when you create a strict diet plan and you promise to yourself that you will follow it, but after a couple days you binge on cookies. The reason you would give yourself is "I ate healthy for the past couple of days, so there's no problem if I binge on a bunch of cookies today".

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Displacement

When I am driving on the road and some car speeds and cuts me off without a signal, I get mad. Because of my frustration in the other person cutting me off, speed and cut someone else off.

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Rationalization

Today, when I ate a chocolate bar, I told myself "everyone can splurge once in a while." Truth is, I splurge every day.

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Rationalization:

When you apply for a job you had been saying that you wanted for the past 4 weeks but you get rejected. Then, you say that the work environment wasn't good and healthy anyways.

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Regression

When someone is nervous or stressed about their period in life and wants to return back to their youthful times, or more enjoyable times in order to feel more at ease.

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Rationalization:

When you are right shark but you want to be left shark. When you realize that you can't be left shark you rationalize that being left shark was never cool anyways.

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Denial:
After a marriage divorce or a bad breakup, people have the tendency to be in denial of that breakup, tricking themselves into thinking that the breakup did not happen and they are still together. This happens subconsciously and the person acts as if nothing happened.

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Displacement:

Instead of yelling and taking out your anger on others who would be negatively affected by such rage, you instead proceed to vent your anger in a safer outlet. In this case, you decide to yell into a pillow to relieve yourself of stress.

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Rationalization:

When you made a goal to go to the Elite Academy but end up making excuses that there just is too much work to do.

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Rationalization:

A girl's grandmother passes away. She was only 60 years old and was completely healthy. She had 4 Olympic Gold medals in luge. The grandmother had a life expectancy of 103 years. She died due to a failed wisdom teeth removal surgery. The girl goes to church and says, "it's part of God's plan."

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Sublimation :

An example of sublimation would be going to the gym instead of having a heated argument at the person you're really mad at.

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Explanations > Behaviors > Coping > Defense Mechanisms

Anxiety and tension | Defense Mechanisms | So what?

Sigmund Freud describes how the Ego uses a range of mechanisms to handle the conflict between the Id, the Ego and the Super ego. His daughter Anna introduced the principle of inner mechanisms that defend the ego in her 1936 book 'The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense'.

Anxiety and tension

Freud noted that a major drive for most people is the reduction in tension, and that a major cause of tension was anxiety. He identified three different types of anxiety.

Reality Anxiety

This is the most basic form of anxiety and is typically based on fears of real and possible events, such as being bitten by a dog or falling from a ladder.

The most common way of reducing tension from Reality Anxiety is taking oneself away from the situation, running away from the dog or simply refusing to go up the ladder.

Neurotic Anxiety

This is a form of anxiety which comes from an unconscious fear that the basic impulses of the ID (the primitive part of our personality) will take control of the person, leading to eventual punishment (this is thus a form of Moral Anxiety).

Moral Anxiety

This form of anxiety comes from the Superego in the form of a fear of violating values and moral codes, and appears as feelings of guilt or shame.

Defense Mechanisms

When anxiety occurs, the mind first responds by an increase in problem-solving thinking, seeking rational ways of escaping the situation. If this is not fruitful (and maybe anyway), a range of defense mechanisms may be triggered. These are tactics which the Ego develops to help deal with the Id and the Super Ego.

All Defense Mechanisms share two common properties :

They often appear unconsciously.

They tend to distort, transform, or otherwise falsify reality.

In distorting reality, there is a change in perception which allows for a lessening of anxiety, with a corresponding reduction in felt tension.

Anna Freud's Defense Mechanisms include:

After the initial list, many other mechanisms for coping with the difficulties life throws at us have been identified by other analysts and authors.

Psychoanalysis often involves a long series of sessions with the client in which original causes are sought out (often searching through childhood relationships) and cathartic experiences of realization are used to teach the client how these mechanisms are no longer appropriate.

For Freud, the purpose of psychoanalysis was to bring repressed memories, fears and thoughts back to the conscious level of awareness. Two techniques he used are free association and dream analysis. He considered dreams as the "royal road" to the unconscious. He also analyzed and interpreted the various defense mechanisms.

In persuasion, you can watch for these dysfunctional mechanisms in people and either work around them or with them as appropriate.

You should also watch for these mechanisms in yourself, and either learn to handle them or get professional help in doing so.

See also

Coping Mechanisms, Cognitive Dissonance, Freud's Personality Factors, Concepts in psychoanalysis

Freud, A. (1937). The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense, London: Hogarth Press and Institute of Psycho-Analysis

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