Abstract
This book deals with one particular problem that is with the ways and means by which the ego wards off unpleasure and anxiety, and exercises control over impulsive behavior, affects, and instinctive urges. It is a major contribution to psychoanalytic psychology.
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Idego and super-egoDefence mechanismsPsychologyPsychoanalysisBiology
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Anna Freud
(2018).
The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence.
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https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429481550
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- 10.4324/9780429481550