Moderate difficulty suitable for most players
Intricate Shields of the Psyche
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
- 1. Attributing one's own unacceptable desires onto another’s canvas
- 2. Transforming primal urges into culturally acceptable pursuits
- 3. Unconscious banishing of distressing thoughts to the mental oubliette
- 4. Internalizing external traits as armor of the self
- 5. Cognitive vaulting of conflicting emotions into sealed psychic cells
- 6. Crafting logical veneers to mask emotional truths
- 7. Redirecting forbidden impulses from origin to safer target
- 10. Mental erasure by symbolic ‘undo’ of regrettable acts
- 11. Adopting attitudes diametrically opposed to unconscious desires
Down
- 8. Uniting ego by emulating the admired archetype
- 9. Psychic refusal to acknowledge reality’s harsh reflection
- 12. Separating emotion from thought to numb psychic pain
- 13. Retreat into mental realms to evade real-world anxieties
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