Freud believed we protect ourselves from allowing socially unacceptable wishes or impulses that would be inconsistent with our oral values or social responsibilities from rising into conscious awareness through the use of ________.

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Freud believed that defence mechanisms are used to protect ourselves from socially unacceptable impulses, desires or thoughts that are inconsistent with our societal norms, and prevent them from reaching conscious awareness. The other options, response sets, secondary process thinking, and primary process thinking, are not directly related to this idea.

Freud Believed We Protect Ourselves from Allowing Socially Unacceptable Wishes