The Ego as a Defense Mechanism

The self's function as a defense mechanism is to protect itself, and may be caused by anxiety due to instinctive tension, supernatural threat, or increased risk. Anna Freud cited nine defensive measures: return, oppression, reaction formation, isolation, evacuation, projection, guidance, self-opposition, and reversal - and the tenth sublimation. Splitting and rejecting are also often classified as defensive. In general, defense is considered to belong to a specific development stage as follows.

Psychological Defense: Both males and females, the defense mechanism temporarily resolves Id's motive and self-propelled contradiction. The first defense mechanism is thought of oppression, memory block, emotional impulse, and conscious thought; however it does not resolve the Id-Ego conflict. By identification, the child incorporates the personality traits of same-sex parents into self; therefore, the boy reduces castration anxiety because its similarity with his father protects him from anger as a father's mother. Competitors; Through this adaptation, girls are easy to identify with their mothers, she understands that they are not opponents as women, they do not have penises

Freud and his daughter Anna announced a clearer self-mechanism in "self and mechanism" announced in 1936 (2013). - On January 30, 1882, the world welcomed the new boy named Franklin Delano Roosevelt. It helps the United States recover from injury and depth of danger and take it to a safe coast. He married his wife and his distant cousin in the name of Eleanor Roosevelt and she did a lot of good things about herself.

Anna Freud further developed her father's defense mechanism theory in "Self and Mechanism" (1936). It is her work to convince contemporary psychologists that "self defense is not a symptom of morbidity or mental illness, they are original and self-deception that they can adapt." Get it. German psychoanalyst Erik Erikson recognizes the fundamental concept of Freud's theory and thinks that development will take place through a series of important stages, thought that Freud erroneously determined important aspects of human development It is (Hales & Hales, 1995). ) Mr. Ericsson believes that personality is not always constant as development is a lifelong and continuous process. Ericsson has evolved the eight psychosocial stages that humans encountered in their lifetime. "There are traces of this theory at most other stages of adulthood, and his terminology is widely adopted" (Bee, 2000, p. 35).