This hub page gathers psychoanalytic defenses and mechanisms (Freudian and Lacanian), including repression, denial/negation, disavowal, foreclosure, and related compromise formations.
Defense mechanisms | |
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| Core operations | |
| Lacanian mechanisms | |
| Denial and negation | |
| Projection and introjection | |
| Undoing and isolation | |
| Sublimation and idealization | |
| Dream-work and compromise | |
Psychoanalytic concepts | |
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| Registers and knotting | |
| Subject and Otherness | |
| Desire, lack, and object | |
| Drive and jouissance | |
| Language and the unconscious | |
| Sexuation and law | |
| Formation and identification | |
| Defense and psychic mechanisms | |
| Time, repetition, and trauma | |
| Clinical structures and symptoms | |
| Analytic technique and frame | |
| Affect and anxiety | |
| Discourses and social bond | |
| Formalization and topology | |
| Ethics and the act | |
The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total.