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"[[defence]]" ([[Fr]]. ''[[défense]]'')

[[Anna Freud]] attempted to classify some of these mechanisms in her book ''The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence]] (1936).

[[Lacan]] is very critical of the way in which [[Anna Freud]] and [[ego-psychology]] interpret the concept of [[defence]].

This way of distinguishing between [[resistance]] and [[defence]] is quite different from that of other [[school]]s of [[psychoanalysis]], which, if they have distinguished between [[defence]] and [[resistance]] at all, have generally tended to regard [[defence]]s as transitory phenomena and [[resistance]]s as more stable.

The opposition between [[desire]] and [[defence]] is, for [[Lacan]], a [[dialectic]]al one.

<blockquote>"To desire involves a defensive phase tht makes it identical with not wanting to desire."<ref>{{S11}} p.235</ref></blockquote>