Sigmund Freud Defense Mechanism Comic Strip AP Psychology
By: Javier Alexander Cervantes
What are sigmund Freud defense mechanisms
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Sigmund freud's Denial defense mechanism is when someone acts or rejects reality and refuses to accept facts. They DENY something that is true, sometimes to stop a negative event or feeling to happen. Done so people do not have to deal with the emotional impact it may create, avoiding a painful event. For example as used above, failing to accept that someone is gone.
Defense Mechanism: Denial
They're gone!
Why is everyone so sad, everything is okay nothing happened
Defense Mechanism: Sublimation
Sigmund Freud's Sublimation defense mechanism is when someone satisfies an emotion or impulse in an acceptable social way. They may be feeling an emotion but cannot express it in its impulsive state as it is not socially acceptable so they fixate that desire by letting it out in another way. An example of this is being angry so letting that anger into a form of activity, use that anger to run faster.