The correct answer is C) prevent threatening thoughts from attaining awareness.
If you ask Freud, the purpose of defense mechanisms is to prevent threatening thoughts from attaining awareness.
According to psychologists Anna Freud, the purpose of defense mechanisms is some type of auto defenses that protect an individual, unconsciously. The protection is against anxiety or not desired thoughts or feelings, even guilt. Among those mechanisms we find, displacement, denial, repression, regression, or projection.
Anna Freud is the daughter of the renowned psychologist, Sigmund Freud.
The four enemies that the ancient Romans successfully battled against were the: Samnites, Etrusians, Celtics, and Carthaginians.
I believe the answer is: Inferiority
According to erikson's every individuals have the need to have a sense of belonging/to be accepted by other members of the social group.
If they fail to achieve this, they would start to think that something is wrong with them and started to develop the feeling of inferiority.
One of the example would be: <span>Asking women if they have had an abortion
Women who had abortion usually experienced a drastic emotional pressure right before and after the abortion process.
Finding out the harm of abortion by collecting the data from women who never actually experienced wouldn't represent the closest situation compared to the women who actually experienced it.</span>
