Unconscious strategies the ego employs for keeping anxiety, guilt, unacceptable impulses, and other threats to the ego out of awareness is known as

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The description matches the definition of ego defense mechanisms, which are unconscious strategies the ego uses to protect itself from anxiety or threats. A is incorrect because object relations is a theory about how early relationships shape personality development. B is incorrect because symbiosis refers to a state of close, interdependent relationships, and is not related to defense mechanisms.

Unconscious Strategies the Ego Employs for Keeping Anxiety, Guilt, Unacceptable