Discuss defense mechanisms' implications in the development of personality.

According to Freud, Personality is made up of id, ego, and
the superego. Ego is the executive which mediates the other two. Defense Mechanisms is a
way for the ego to protect itself from anxiety. It is methods to reduce anxiety of
distort reality. Defense Mechanisms do take a part in the development of Psychology.
"Repression" when we push desires that cause anxiety out of
consciousness.

Regression

-
when you deal with anxiety by returning to an earlier stage of
development

- going to our comfortable childhood days when
facing stressful situation

Reaction
Formation

- Reacts in a manner opposite that of his or her
true feelings, ego changes forbidden desires into their
opposite.

Projection

-
Attributing to his or her own feelings to others

- hide bad
desires by attributing them to
others

Rationalization

- offer
false, or self-justifying explanations of his or her own
actions

Displacement

- impulse
are directed to an object other than the one that caused
arousal

Denial

- refuses to
believe a painful
reality

Sublimation

- changing
unwanted desires into something honorable