Chapter 11: Defense Mechanisms & Violence 😡🛡️
Defense Mechanisms & Violence 😡🛡️
- Denial: Refusing reality → can lead to violent attempts to prove self right ⚔️
- Repression: Hidden desires erupt → e.g., unconscious sexual desires → fight against perceived immorality 💥
- Rationalization: Justifying violence → e.g., countries making excuses for war 🌍💣
- Projection: Attacking others for your own evil desires → e.g., social "jihad" 🔥
- Displacement: Aggression shifted to substitutes → boss → wife → children → pets 🐕; self-directed → suicide 💀; explains inferiority, guilt, depression 😔
- Regression: Acting childlike under stress → can lead to assault 👶➡️👊
- Overcompensation: Frustration replaced by overindulgence → excessive eating 🍔, drugs 💊, prostitutes 💃
- Acting Out: Anxiety expressed physically → can cause violent acts ⚡
- Splitting: Seeing people as all good or all bad → exaggerating evil → violence 🔥
Freudian Methods 🛌🗣️
- Hypnosis & Free Association: Patient shares all thoughts freely; helps uncover hidden memories 🌀
- Dream Interpretation: Dreams = unconscious Id thoughts trying to emerge; reveal repressed childhood memories or wishes; use symbolism; gives insight 🔮
Jungian Psychology 🌌
- Jung: disagreed with Freud; emphasized spirituality, mysticism, religion ✨
- Attitude Types:
- Extroverts: social, energized by interaction, focus outward 👥
- Introverts: reserved, energized by solitude, focus inward 🧘
Four Ego Functions (Jung) 🧠
- Thinking: rational, analytical, head-oriented 🧑🔬
- Feeling: emotional, value-based, heart-oriented ❤️
- Sensation: perception via senses; physical reality 🌳
- Introverted-Sensation: artist, inner-focused 🎨
- Extroverted-Sensation: materialistic, practical 💰
- Intuition: gut feeling, inspiration, creativity ✨
- Introverted-Intuition: spiritual/mystic, absorbed in zikr-e-Allah 🕌
- Extroverted-Intuition: idealistic, socially active, public causes 🌟
Combinations of Ego Functions
- Introvert Sensation Feeling: enjoys home, movies, reading 🎬📚
- Introvert Sensation Thinking: scientists, musicians 🔬🎶
- Introvert Intuition Feeling: spiritual/mystics 🕊️
- Introvert Intuition Thinking: spiritual, minimal social interaction 🌌
- Extrovert Sensation Feeling: party animals, pleasure seekers 🎉🍹
- Extrovert Sensation Thinking: planners, social, politicians, actors 🎭📊
- Extrovert Intuition Feeling: empathetic, idealistic, religious 🙏
- Extrovert Intuition Thinking: logical, good teachers, communicators 🧑🏫
Violence & Jungian Types ⚔️
- Extreme Introversion: misinterpret others → potential violence 😠
- Extreme Extraversion: excessive interaction → offend others → violence 😡
- Sensation & Feeling dominant: slaves of desires/emotions → drugs 💊, sexual crimes 💃, violence 🔥
- Thinking & Intuition dominant: usually avoid violence 🧠✨
Collective Unconscious 🌐
- Shared reservoir of human experiences, separate from personal unconscious 🌌
- Cultural Dreams: symbolize collective memories & instincts 💤
- Fairy/Folk Tales: rooted in collective unconscious, found across cultures 🧚♀️📖
| Key Concepts | Highlights |
|---|---|
| Defense Mechanisms | Denial, Repression, Rationalization, Projection, Displacement, Regression, Overcompensation, Acting Out, Splitting — linked to violence |
| Freudian Methods | Hypnosis & Free Association, Dream Interpretation |
| Jungian Psychology | Carl Jung (1875-1961), Attitude Types (Extrovert/Introvert), Four Ego Functions (Thinking, Feeling, Sensation, Intuition) |
| Collective Unconscious | Shared human experiences, Cultural Dreams, Fairy Tales |