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Fantasy, when used as a defense mechanism, is the channeling of unacceptable or unattainable desires into imagination. This can protect ones self esteem as when educational, vocational or social expectations are not being met, Undoing is the attempt to take back behavior or thoughts that are unacceptable.
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Below is a handout I give to students that we use to discuss some of the typical defense mechanisms. After the discussion, Undoing: You try to reverse or undo your feeling by DOING something that indicates the opposite feeling. It may be an "apology" for the feeling you find unacceptable within yourself.
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The defense mechanism of "undoing" is based on the notion that it is possible to make amends, to correct mistakes made. In essence, it involves feeling guilty and trying to do something to undo the harm that may have been inflicted.
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The mechanism of undoing is characteristic of obsessional neurosis, along with isolation. It involves a process of "negative magic" In Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety (1926d), he defines more specifically the "magical" nature of this defense that "no longer [has] any resemblance to the process of 'repression"' (p.
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See Defense mechanism. defense mechanism a usually unconscious mental mechanism by which psychic tension is diminished, e.g., repression, rationalization, etc. Visit this Web site from the Australian Museum to learn more about the defense mechanism of the sea slug: www.
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Jun 27, 2001 Defense mechanisms are supposed to be largely unconscious and .... Undoing. Attempting to reverse the effects of a negative act or feeling...
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Jun 30, 2008 the defense mechanism of “Undoing” .... defense mechanism referred to as <STRONG>undoing</STRONG> is an unconscious attempt to take back,
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compensation A defense mechanism, operating unconsciously, by which one attempts to make up for real or fancied deficiencies. Also a conscious process in which one strives to make up for real or imagined defects of physique, performance skills, or psychological attributes.
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Modern psychiatry, however, uses the term defense mechanism in both pathological and everyday settings.[1] Undoing. You use symbolic means to negate or make amends for unacceptable thoughts or feelings. For example, you repetitively wash your hands as an unconscious gesture of “washing away” the guilt of feeling...
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Perhaps the most primitive and best known defense mechanism. People simply ignore unpleasant facts, they filter out data and content that contravene their self-image, prejudices, and preconceived notions of others Freud described how sexual desires and urges are transformed into creative pursuits or politics. Undoing;
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