I read some info on a Sigmun Freud site about what Anna Freud called things like regression, projection and those things, which are deviations of facing the truth. One thing that I read was that Freud supposedly thought that sublimination is a good thing. I think it is the MOST avaoidant way of facing the truth, but it is the subconciouses way of facing it.
Anyway, my question is, what is it called when a person is afraid of something happeneing, so they make it happen? What would that be called? Hopefully the Doc will have an answer for this. And what would the opposite be? I guess an example of what
I'm saying is what if a person was afraid of running out of money, so then they go buy a whole buch of things and spend all thier money.
Or what if they think they won't get thier homework done, so they don't even start it. Anyone???