Freud's defense mechanisms include denial, displacement, projection, rationalization, reaction formation, regression, repression, and sublimation. Denial involves blocking out painful facts mentally, while displacement involves taking out feelings on someone else. Projection attributes one's own undesired thoughts to others, and rationalization justifies acts with good reasons. Reaction formation converts irrational thoughts positively, and regression reverts to earlier development stages due to fears. Repression buries bad thoughts that emerge symbolically, while sublimation redirects unacceptable drives constructively.

1. Freud’s defense mechanisms
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2. Denial
• Blocking out a fact mentally because it is
too painful too accept

3. displacement
• Taking out one’s feelings or frustrations on
someone or something other than that
created those feelings

4. projection
• The misattribution of one’s undesired
thoughts, onto a person who does not
have those thoughts

5. rationalization
• Justifying one’s act by providing a ‘good”
reason for doing it.

6. Reaction formation
• Converting of irrational thoughts into their
positive opposites

7. regression
• A reversion to an earlier stage of
development in the face of unwanted fears
or thoughts.

8. repression
• Burying a bad thought or fear in one’s
mind that can be brought out in symboloic
form

9. sublimation
• Redirecting unacceptable drives into
acceptable channels