The Paper Airplane

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Psychological Defenses in Fiction

Psychological Defenses in Fiction

Mar 26, 2023
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This is a written adaptation of another section of the class on psychology in fiction that I designed in 2018 or so and occasionally teach.

Early in the twentieth century, Anna Freud expanded on her father’s work on unconscious defense mechanisms, creating a list of ten that would later be extended by other psychoanalysts. Crudely stated, every human bei…

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