Sally was the victim of a violent home invasion in which her entire family was viciously murdered and she was critically injured

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Sally was the victim of a violent home invasion in which her entire family was viciously murdered and she was critically injured

. Sally has nightmares and flashbacks of the trauma, which is inconsistent with Freud's view of the defense mechanism known as______.

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irina1246 [14] · Answer 1 · 2022-08-06T02:24:32+03:00

Answer: Repression

Explanation: According to the theory of Freud, repression is defined as the situation when an individual is facing painful, anxious and extremely sad memories, thoughts etc that stays in the unconscious mind and results in coming out of conscious mind . These feelings can occur due to painful memories during past time, agressive incidents etc.

Sally is also facing repression because of the violent incident happened with her in the past time that result in the death of family members.Thus, she gets flashbacks and nightmares from the unconscious memory .