According to Freud, the conflicts that arise during the Oedipus conflict are pushed out of awareness by the use of a defense mechanism called ____________.

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According to Freud, during the Oedipus conflict, a child experiences unconscious desires for the opposite-sex parent and a wish to eliminate the same-sex parent. These desires are unacceptable to the child's conscious mind and are therefore pushed out of awareness through the defense mechanism of repression.

According to Freud, the Conflicts That Arise During the Oedipus