Practice question · Put in order
Order the Freudian sequence by which an unresolved conflict becomes a psychological symptom.
- The conflict remains unresolved rather than being worked through.
- A defense mechanism such as repression pushes it out of awareness.
- A forbidden sexual or aggressive impulse arises in the id.
- It resurfaces indirectly as a psychological symptom.
- The ego experiences anxiety over the unacceptable impulse.
Hints
- The impulse and the anxiety it provokes come before any defense is deployed.
- A symptom is the END product of an unresolved, defended-against conflict.
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- A forbidden sexual or aggressive impulse arises in the id.
- The ego experiences anxiety over the unacceptable impulse.
- A defense mechanism such as repression pushes it out of awareness.
- The conflict remains unresolved rather than being worked through.
- It resurfaces indirectly as a psychological symptom.
Why
A forbidden impulse triggers ego anxiety, a defense pushes it from awareness, and if the conflict stays unresolved it resurfaces as a symptom. In Freud's model, symptoms are indirect expressions of buried, unresolved conflict.
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