Today I'll be showing you 5 of of Freud's defense mechanisms
Denial
What have you done to your room?!
I haven't done anything mom.
Repression
Kid, your dad has just been sent to the hospital. He's in critical condition. I'm so sorry.
Oh that's okay. He'll be fine.
By: Nayyir Ahsan
Projection
Sir, she just fell off her bike.
Denial is the refusal to accept reality, which ends up blocking external events from one's awareness. If a situation becomes overwhelming, a individual may react by refusing to acknowledge it or by denying that it exist.
Displacement
Repression is the unconscious blocking of unpleasant emotions, impulses, memories, and thoughts from your conscious mind. It helps minimize the feelings of guilt and anxiety.
Rationalization
I would've won the game if the sun wasn't in my eye.
Projection is when thoughts and feelings that cannot be accepted as one's own and thus are dealt with by being expressed in the outside world and attributed to another individual.
Did you hurt my daughter? Who hurt my daughter?
Displacement is when an individual redirects negative feelings from one individual or thing to another target.
You're so dumb!
But you're the one who failed their test.
Rationalization is when an individual explains an unacceptable behavior or feeling in a rational manner, in order to hide from the true reasons for the behavior.