While this example involved projecting instincts onto the world, Freud argued that this is a comparatively healthy form of defense. A more powerful a… - Tom Butler-Bowdon

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While this example involved projecting instincts onto the world, Freud argued that this is a comparatively healthy form of defense. A more powerful and often more damaging defense is repression, because it requires the most energy to keep it in place.

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