This hub page gathers psychoanalytic defenses and mechanisms (Freudian and Lacanian), including repression, denial/negation, disavowal, foreclosure, and related compromise formations.
Defense mechanisms | |
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| Core operations | |
| Lacanian mechanisms | |
| Denial and negation | |
| Projection and introjection | |
| Undoing and isolation | |
| Sublimation and idealization | |
| Dream-work and compromise | |
Psychoanalytic concepts | |
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| Registers | |
| Subject and the Other | |
| Desire and object | |
| Drive and jouissance | |
| Language and the unconscious | |
| Sexuation and law | |
| Time and repetition | |
| Defense and symptom | |
| Clinic and technique | |
| Formalization | |