TIPSters--
It's Freud time in my general psych class (oh, joy). I'm focusing on defense mechanisms, and once again battling with something I've never fully understood. Defense mechanisms are defined as unconscious; what is called when the same mechanism is used in a fully, or even partly, conscious way? I often engage in displacement fully knowing what I'm doing--I'm very anxious about X, which I can't control, so I'll displace that onto tidying my office or fussing over my clothes, which I can control. (Works, too.) Obviously you can't consciously repress, or go into denial, but some of the other defense mechanisms seem utterly amenable to conscious deployment. So what are they called when conscious?
--Robin
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