SOC SCI H1F Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Rationality, Unconscious Mind, Karl Popper
7 Feb 2019
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Defense mechanisms are useful, but they can become maladaptive. So george vaillant from harvard have found some that are valuable. They involve a minimum amount of distortion of reality and allow people to cope well with anxiety. Altruism; managing personal pain by helping others. Sublimation; redirecting unacceptable drives into personally and socially acceptable outlets. Ex: having a bad time, begin a great novel. Investigated if deploying these mature defenses could mitigate negative effects of stressful life events. The mature defense men of high stress led similar lives to those who did not experience a lot of stress or trauma outside of the normal ranges. Film and literary depictions of the freudian structural model. Lord of the flies, depicting how boys become savage. Primitive mind coming out; we all still harbor this mind. Wwii inspired golding, because children were taken from parents to keep them safe from bombing and such.
