Psychology: Defense Mechanisms; Id, Ego, Superego

- Emphasizing personal strengths in one area to shift focus from failure in another area

- Refusing to accept an unpleasant reality

- Taking out one's anger or frustration on an object or person that has a smaller price to pay

- Associating with people of a higher status in order to increase your status- "If you can't beat them join them"

- Describing painful or unfortunate situations in academic or philosophical terms

- You believe another person has the feelings / beliefs you are not expressing- Casting your true feelings onto someone else; blaming them for your feelings

- To give a logical reason for an illogical behavior- An excuse you believe to be true

- You express the opposite of your true (unconscious) thoughts so they become socially acceptable

- To regress or return to an old, childhood behavior for comfort

- To keep material out of awareness / consciousness because it is too painful to accept or recall

- Finding an acceptable outlet through exercise or physical activity as a substitute for sexual or aggressive feelings / energy

- Our baby-like self- Wants immediate gratification- Libido "pleasure principle"- Irrational- "Stewie"

- Deals with reality "reality principle"- Has to negotiate the demands of the Id with the reality of living in society- Rational- Goes out into the "world of objects"- Creates defense mechanisms to avoid anxiety

- Moral center "should" "should not"- Where we internalize the moral code of society- Guilt caused by unconscious- Partly conscious, partly unconscious- Irrational; strives for moral perfection