... sublimation is the process of altering or distorting the impulses themselves. The unacceptable drives are diverted into other channels; usually ones that are socially acceptable, even admirable. One example would be an individual with sexual urges deemed undesirable by society in general (eg. paedophilia), channelling these urges into an artistic endeavour, such as sculpture (Schultz & Schultz, 1994). Reaction ... formation is transforming an unacceptable feeling or desire into its more acceptable opposite. Gray (1999) gives the example of a young woman who unconsciously hates ... her m...

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... a way that considers consequences of actions taken. A further extent of this would be the super-ego. In other words, the id takes socially unacceptable impulses and channels them through a more acceptable behavior, which is also referred to as sublimination. An example of this would be sexual impulses converted into marriage and aggression into sports. This not only relieves the id's desires ... conscious part of your personality that starts to develop around age five. Based in thought and is intellectual, the super-ego is a structured outline instilled by society describing what is dee...

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