EGO and Personality development

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…development of personality. A major threat of the ego is to deal with the threats and dangers that fall upon a person and stimulate anxiety. The ego attempts to resolve the conflict by adopting realistic solving methods, or the ego will deny, falsify, or distort reality and impede personality development. The latter methods are called defense mechanisms. The first mechanism is repression, the restraining of a cathexis of the id, ego, and superego, by anticathe