Psychology I / Psychoanalytic Perspectives
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Freud's defence mechanisms are largely absent from modern personality theory, yet projection and rationalisation appear constantly in cognitive research under other names. What happened?

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  1. Ask whether 'people explain away evidence that threatens them' needs the id to be true.
  2. The self-serving bias appears in this course's attribution lesson. Is it new?
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B. The observations survived and the theory around them did not

Why

The behaviours were real and the machinery was not. Rationalisation reappears as motivated reasoning, projection as false consensus, described in testable terms and detached from the drive theory. Clinicians noticing something is compatible with their explanation of it being wrong.

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