This document discusses various neurotic defense mechanisms used to maintain a lack of awareness regarding conflicting needs and desires. It defines repression as being unable to remember or be aware of disturbing experiences. Dissociation is a temporary alteration in consciousness where particular affects or impulses are expressed without full acknowledgment. Reaction formation is substituting behaviors, thoughts, or feelings that are opposite to unacceptable ones. Displacement is generalizing or redirecting feelings about an object onto another less threatening object.