In the stages of Sigmund Freud's theory, there are unconscious strategies that

people use to psychologically change what is reality, into what they would like to believe.

These strategies are called defense mechanisms, and in some cases may cause the person

to have emotional problems and depressing behaviors. They are used by the go to defend

itself against threatening thoughts and anxiety. Freud described six different types of

defense mechanisms. The first defense mechanism he explained was repression. It is the

blocking away and shutting out of a traumatic event that happened in ones life. Someone

may use repression to forget bad memories for psychological needs. Projection is

attaching one's own undesirable thoughts and feelings onto someone or something else.

If a person did not like someone, they would say that that person did not like them

instead. Displacement is when people redirect their feelings...