Reality as Medicine
This Jungian Life Podcast
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Sublimation - The Most Helpful of All the Defences
Regression is this impulse to move back to an earlier state of psychological functioning when we're under stress. Displacement is satisfying an impulse with a substitute object. Sublimation is often considered the most helpful of all the defences, where we satisfy an impulses with a substitute. And vicariously, we're kind of rocking and socking things around so that the culture doesn't have to bear the full brunt of our natural violence. So there's many nuances around that, and we will probably do our own podcast on it - but i list them just so that we can appreciate the struggl that the ego has to really put its hands on reality.
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