The document discusses different types of anxiety. It notes that anxiety serves as a warning signal, but can sometimes be objectless without a clear source. Reality anxiety involves fears of tangible dangers and helps guide behavior to escape actual threats. Neurotic anxiety is an unconscious fear of punishment for displaying forbidden impulses. Moral anxiety is a fear of violating one's conscience or society's moral code from an internal conflict. The document lists several defense mechanisms that can serve as defenses against anxiety, such as repression, denial, projection, and rationalization.

1. Dr.Maheshbabu.N
Dept of Psychology
SDM College, Ujire

2.  Anxiety serves as a warning signal to the
person
 Anxiety as an objectless fear, often we
cannot point to its sources to a specific
object that induced it
 The fetus in its mother’s womb is in the most
safe world, where every need is satisfied
without delay

3.  Reality anxiety –
 It involves a fear of tangible dangers in the
real world.
 Most of us fear fires, earthquakes, similar
disaster
 We run from wild animals, speeding cars,
 It serves as positive purpose of guiding our
behaviour to escape from actual danger

4.  Neurotic anxiety
 Children often punished for overtly
expressing aggressive impulses
 Neurotic anxiety is an unconscious fear of
being punished for impulsively displaying id
dominated behavour

5.  Moral anxiety
 Conflict between id and the superego
 It is a fear of one’s conscience
 Violating moral code
 Violating society’s moral code

6.  Defense mechanisms (defense against
anxiety)
 Repression
 Denial
 Reaction formation
 Projection
 Regression
 Rationalization
 Displacement
 Sublimation