Psychology
D317 Social Psychology: personal lives, social worlds
Understanding The Self
Edited by Richard Stevens
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The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA © The Open University 1996 First published in 1996. Reprinted 2000, 2002. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may e reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, transmitted or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without permission in writing from the Publishers. SAGE Publications Ltd 6 Bonhill Street London EC2A 4PU SAGE Publications Ltd 2455 Teller Road Thousand Oaks California 91320 Sage Publications India Pvt Ltd 32, M-Block Market Greater Kailash - 1 New Delhi 110 048 British Library Cataloguing in Publication data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 0 7619 5039 7 ISBN 0 7619 5040 0 (pbk) Library of Congress catalog card number 95-071767 Edited, designed and typeset by the Open University.
Printed and bound by Cromwell Press, Trowbridge, Wiltshire.
This text forms part of an Open University course D317 Social Psychology: Personal Lives, Social Worlds. Details of this and other Open University courses can be obtained from the Central Enquiry Service, PO Box 200, The Open University, Milton Keynes MK& 6YZ. For availability of other course components, contact Open University Educational Enterprises Ltd, 12 Cofferidge Close, Stony Stratford, Milton Keynes MK11 1BY.
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CHAPTER 6 THE DEFENSIVE SELF: A PSYCHODYNAMIC PERSPECTIVE by Kerry Thomas
Contents I Introduction ........................................................................ 4 2 Basic psychodynamic assumptions .............................. 11 2. 1 Unconscious motivation ................................................ 11 2. 2 Irrationality and defence mechanisms............................ 16 2. 3 Internal worlds and the developmental focus.................. 18 2. 4 The experiencing subject
Understanding The Self
Edited by Richard Stevens
1
The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA © The Open University 1996 First published in 1996. Reprinted 2000, 2002. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may e reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, transmitted or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without permission in writing from the Publishers. SAGE Publications Ltd 6 Bonhill Street London EC2A 4PU SAGE Publications Ltd 2455 Teller Road Thousand Oaks California 91320 Sage Publications India Pvt Ltd 32, M-Block Market Greater Kailash - 1 New Delhi 110 048 British Library Cataloguing in Publication data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 0 7619 5039 7 ISBN 0 7619 5040 0 (pbk) Library of Congress catalog card number 95-071767 Edited, designed and typeset by the Open University.
Printed and bound by Cromwell Press, Trowbridge, Wiltshire.
This text forms part of an Open University course D317 Social Psychology: Personal Lives, Social Worlds. Details of this and other Open University courses can be obtained from the Central Enquiry Service, PO Box 200, The Open University, Milton Keynes MK& 6YZ. For availability of other course components, contact Open University Educational Enterprises Ltd, 12 Cofferidge Close, Stony Stratford, Milton Keynes MK11 1BY.
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CHAPTER 6 THE DEFENSIVE SELF: A PSYCHODYNAMIC PERSPECTIVE by Kerry Thomas
Contents I Introduction ........................................................................ 4 2 Basic psychodynamic assumptions .............................. 11 2. 1 Unconscious motivation ................................................ 11 2. 2 Irrationality and defence mechanisms............................ 16 2. 3 Internal worlds and the developmental focus.................. 18 2. 4 The experiencing subject
References: Adorno, T. W., Frenkel–Brunswik, E., Levinson, D. J. and Sanford, R. N. (1950) The Authoritarian Personality, New York, Harper and Row.