Facing Reality

A 1950's film that deals with psychological defense mechanisms.

I posted this to illustrate the paradoxical nature of reality.

When the boy doesn't make the team, they suggest that he always had an excuse. It was the coach who didn't like him and that this was projection of his own problem onto the coach.

But what if it were true? What if the boy knew intuitvely that the coach didn't like him and acted out as a result of his pain of rejection? Maybe he was angry because he was better at football than the other boys?

How many other ways could these so called defense mechanisms be rejected as simply not true? Alternative explanations are therefore rejected because they are identified by psychology as being defense mechanisms.

So they may be true or not true. Maybe a little of both.

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