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industrial training

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In personnel management, this term usually refers to the training of new workers in a particular industry or sector of the economy, at all levels of ability and skill.

ego defence

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In psychoanalysis, this is a term for the ways in which the ego protects itself from the threatening unconscious ideas of the ID or the superego, or from external dangers in the ...

sublimation

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In psychoanalysis, this is an ego defence in which unacceptable unconscious impulses are channelled into consciously acceptable forms. For Freud this was society’s main way of ...

displacement

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In psychoanalysis, this is an ego defence which involves the unconscious shifting of feeling from its real object to another where it is less threatening to the ego; for example, ...

projection

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In psychoanalysis, this refers to an ego defence where an individual (at the unconscious level) attributes to other people feelings she or he has, but which are too threatening to ...

repression

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In psychoanalysis, this term is used to describe a particular kind of ego defence, as well as being a crucial concept in Freudian theory. The essence of repression is the holding ...

inhibition

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In psychology generally, this term refers to the blocking of one physiological or psychological process by another; for example, the response to one sense receptor (the eyes) ...