Quotes About Defense

In all these situations of conflict the ego is seeking to repudiate a part of its own id. Thus the institution which sets up the defence and the invading force which is warded off are always the same; the variable factors are the motives which impel the ego to resort to defensive measures. Ultimately all such measures are designed to secure the ego and to save it from experiencing 'pain.

The term "defense" in relation to psychology was first used by Sigmund Freud in 1894. He meant it to describe, as Anna Freud said, "the ego's struggle against painful or unendurable ideas or effects," which may lead to neurosis. The

The ego develops a defense in order to protect itself against being overcome by unconscious demands such as sex and aggression. The work of the psychoanalyst is to get the person to become conscious of their instinctual urges, which may involve isolating the pain experienced when they were originally confronted by an unsatisfied impulse.

The ego continually endeavors to create harmony between itself, the unconscious, and the outside world, but this does not always lead to perfect mental health. In fact, sometimes when the ego "wins" the person as a whole may have lost, since the win may involve the creation of a defense in order to have the ego maintain its sense of itself at all costs.

The ego is always alert to the dangers that the unconscious may over-throw it. It may try to intellectualize away unconscious urges, inhibit them, project them onto others, or deny them. Freud

When a natural instinct surfaces, the ego wants to have it satisfied, but the superego does not allow that. The ego submits to the "higher" superego, but is left with the problem. It begins a struggle with the impulse and, to reduce the pain of not satisfying it, engineers a defense that allows itself to make sense of its decision to submit.

While this example involved projecting instincts onto the world, Freud argued that this is a comparatively healthy form of defense. A more powerful and often more damaging defense is repression, because it requires the most energy to keep it in place.

Most things in here don't react well to bullets.

Frankly, we should have an ARPA-O, an Advanced Research Projects Agency for oceans research, to match DARPA for defense and ARPA-E for energy. And we should have an Oceans and Coasts Fund to match the upland- and freshwater-directed Land and Water Conservation Fund.

It is literally my job to support and defend the President, so it is odd to me that I am being asked to defend or explain 'comments in support' of my boss.

It's good to be good at playing defence, but the best defence is a strong offence.

We should play free football, defend lively with a passion, and have the best understanding in offence.

Every comic says things that are going to offend someone, so we all have to defend each other with this stuff.

The job of the offense is not to score points. The job of the defense is not to stop the other team from scoring points.

I've looked up to Michael Jordan because not only was he an assassin on offense, he was an assassin on defense.

When you have a guy that each week you can change up your game plan a little bit depending on what an offense does - you can put him at nickel, you can put him at linebacker position, Will or Sam or whatever they have him doing, he can create a matchup that the offense is not ready for.

For the longest time, it's always been Aaron Rodgers and the offense. It's nice to have a little notoriety on defense.

My greatest defense was my offense. Very few guys did that.

Whenever you are coaching, you are trying to get the most balanced team that you can: balance between defense, offense, and rebounding.

We need to play tough defense and have a sound offense. But mostly, we have to outrebound the other team.

People watch the points, they watch the highlights. But the defense I think helps the offense.

I think that my offense comes from what I do with my defense.

We have to let our defense dictate our offense.

I'm not worried about offense. I've always had that, but I can get better defensively and that in turn will make my offense better.