Paul forgets to call his mother-in-law on her birthday. He says it just slipped his mind. In the Freudian view, this type of forgetting may represent the defense mechanism of

a. repression.
b. sublimation.
c. rationalization.
d. reaction formation.
e. displacement.


a. repression.

Psychology

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