Defense mechanisms: a teleological comparison between Sigmund and Anna Freud

Abstract

To identify the Defense Mechanisms according to the point of view of the study of behavior between Sigmund Freud and Anna Freud and how the human being, according to these authors, have developed different aspects from psychology to isolate or better interact with society, it is important to point out that Defense Mechanisms means the procedures that maintain the psychological balance unconsciously to face the anguish or anxiety, these can protect the individual from external aggressions or can affect the vision of reality. For which the nature of the unconscious will be analyzed and why it would be related to Defense Mechanisms.

The issues discussed above are determined and discussed, providing as a result a synthesis of the different positions related to each other, with the purpose of strengthening the different types, according to Sigmund Freud, such as: Repression, Displacement (Transfer, Phobia, Displacement ), Reactive Training, Isolation, Annulment, Somatization, Conversion, Excision, Projection and Projective Identification, Introjection, Denial, Suppression, Altruism, Sublimation, Humor, of which the most important ones will be analyzed to understand how they resemble and how Both authors differ.