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The Ego and Mechanisms of Defense

work by Anna Freud

Also known as: “Das Ich und die Abwehrmechanismen”

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…Ich und die Abwehrmechanismen (1936; The Ego and Mechanisms of Defense, 1937) gave a strong, new impetus to ego psychology. The principal human defense mechanism, she indicated, is repression, an unconscious process that develops as the young child learns that some impulses, if acted upon, could prove dangerous to himself.…
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