Four Ego Defense Mechanisms
Lakshmi Cruz
MW 4:30-5:45
09/22/2014
Although, according to Freud, the ego-defense mechanisms function on the unconscious level, it is sometimes possible to detect one's own use of them by carefully observing one's behavior. Discuss four of the ego-defense mechanisms you use and give specific examples of how you have used them. Integrate into your paper a discussion of the purpose of defense mechanisms, and how Freud defined the defense mechanisms you address.
The Unconscious Freud believed that all aspects of our personalities derive from unconscious biological instincts. We are the product of three forces, the Id, Ego, and the Super Ego, who are constantly trying to balance instinctive drives, reality, and social norms. The Id is the part of the unconscious connected with primary processes. The Id is in accordance with the pleasure principle, the idea that humans seek pleasure and try to avoid pain. While the Id has this long wish list to be fulfilled, the Ego is the part of the unconscious that satisfies all the needs of the Id. The Ego is …show more content…
A person going through denial is guilty of selective forgetting. They are able to identify that the event happened in reality but they simply chose to not think about it. This is a person’s way of minimizing the problem they are dealing with. I have a serious problem with selective forgetting. It usually only happens with people who are very close to me or I have been affiliated with for very long. They could be talking to me about something very important that has been going on in their life or simply having a normal conversation with me, but I will forget what they said within minutes. It’s as if everything they just said to me goes through one ear and out through the other. I know we had that conversation but I wouldn’t be able to tell you what it was
MW 4:30-5:45
09/22/2014
Although, according to Freud, the ego-defense mechanisms function on the unconscious level, it is sometimes possible to detect one's own use of them by carefully observing one's behavior. Discuss four of the ego-defense mechanisms you use and give specific examples of how you have used them. Integrate into your paper a discussion of the purpose of defense mechanisms, and how Freud defined the defense mechanisms you address.
The Unconscious Freud believed that all aspects of our personalities derive from unconscious biological instincts. We are the product of three forces, the Id, Ego, and the Super Ego, who are constantly trying to balance instinctive drives, reality, and social norms. The Id is the part of the unconscious connected with primary processes. The Id is in accordance with the pleasure principle, the idea that humans seek pleasure and try to avoid pain. While the Id has this long wish list to be fulfilled, the Ego is the part of the unconscious that satisfies all the needs of the Id. The Ego is …show more content…
A person going through denial is guilty of selective forgetting. They are able to identify that the event happened in reality but they simply chose to not think about it. This is a person’s way of minimizing the problem they are dealing with. I have a serious problem with selective forgetting. It usually only happens with people who are very close to me or I have been affiliated with for very long. They could be talking to me about something very important that has been going on in their life or simply having a normal conversation with me, but I will forget what they said within minutes. It’s as if everything they just said to me goes through one ear and out through the other. I know we had that conversation but I wouldn’t be able to tell you what it was