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Intricacies of Psychological Defense Mechanisms
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  • 1. Unconscious act of pushing unwanted thoughts into a mental oubliette
  • 2. Attributing one’s own undesirable impulses onto others like an internal spotlight
  • 3. Assimilating traits of another to bolster fragile ego boundaries
  • 4. Crafting seemingly logical reasons to mask irrational or unacceptable motives
  • 6. Refusing to acknowledge painful realities despite overwhelming evidence
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  • 5. Detaching from emotional turmoil by adopting clinical or abstract reasoning
  • 7. Redirecting emotional charge from original object to a safer substitute target
  • 8. Transmuting base urges into culturally valued actions, akin to psychoanalytic alchemy
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