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What is the purpose of defense mechanisms according to psychoanalytic theory?
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What is Freud's term for the unconscious efforts by the ego to deny or distort reality for the purpose of protecting itself when conflict becomes too intense?
defense mechanisms
What is the purpose of defense mechanisms?
To protect the mind/self/ego from anxiety, social sanctions, or situations that can't be coped with currently.
How do antibiotics differ from other natural products of microbes such as lactic acid acetic acid ethanol and others?
They differ in how they are used. As far as natural antibiotics, they are defense mechanisms much like needles on a cactus. While the other produces you mention are metabolic wastes and not made just for the purpose of defense.
According to Sidney what is the purpose of poesy?
The purpose of poetry, according to Philip Sidney as stated in his Defense for Poesie, is for poetry to teach and to delight. It is to teach a virtue to the reader while also entertaining them. It imitates life in an original way.
What is the purpose of government according to John Locke?
It is to protect and safeguard an individual's rights.to protect its citizens from each other and to provide for the common defense
What is the purpose for a gun?
Hunt, sport, defense, collecting.
What is the main purpose of a military man?
The defense of his country.
What is the purpose of guns?
Hunting, defense, collecting, shooting,
What is the purpose of defense?
They protect your body emotionally from hardships.
Give you a sentence for the word defense?
The primary purpose of the army is to provide a defense against foreign invasion.
What is the purpose of feedback mechanisms in the body?
It maintains the homeostasis or balance in the body. Feedback mechanisms stops an excessive secretion or excretion of something.
What is the purpose of the Joint chiefs of Staff?
To advise the secretary of defense
