resorts to ego-defense mechanisms.
             A person can only function properly when all three parts are integrated and balanced.
             Ego-defense mechanisms alter reality in a way that it becomes more bearable. They are unconscious. The ego uses them to avoid inner conflict. Defense mechanisms include but are not limited to: regression, denial, projection, repression, and displacement.
             Freud categorized human development into stages. He called them the psychosexual stages. Each stage has an internal crisis to resolve and if it isn't resolved properly, people can develop a fixation.
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