Introduction to Psychology 10th Edition by Rod Plotnik,Haig Kouyoumdjian

Exercise 30

Conflicts between the id and the superego over satisfaction of desires may cause the ego to feel threatened. When threatened, the ego generates an unpleasant state that is associated with feelings of uneasiness, apprehension, and heightened physiological arousal; this unpleasant state is called (a) _____. Freud suggested that the ego may reduce anxiety by using unconscious mechanisms that produce self-deception; these are called (b) _____.