Liz has become more responsive to her partner's advances since she noticed an attractive woman moved in next door. Liz is using a defense mechanism called:

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Liz is displacing her sexual desires onto her partner due to the presence of an attractive woman next door. Displacement is a defense mechanism where an individual redirects their emotions, desires or impulses from their original source to a substitute target. In this case, Liz is redirecting her attraction to her neighbor onto her partner. Projection involves attributing one's own unacceptable impulses or characteristics onto someone else. Sublimation involves channeling one's unacceptable impulses into more acceptable activities, while identification involves adopting the characteristics of someone else, usually a powerful or successful figure.

Liz Has Become More Responsive to Her Partner's Advances Since