Okay, I found this and it is being used quite differently than the definition I found in the psych dictionary. Too, the emboldened part kindly defines it as I think you mean it.
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Optimal development, referred to below in proposition 14, results in a certain process rather than static state. Rogers describes this as the good life, where the organism continually aims to fulfill its full potential. He listed the characteristics of a fully functioning person (Rogers 1961):
- A growing openness to experience – they move away from defensiveness and have no need for subception (a perceptual defense that involves unconsciously applying strategies to prevent a troubling stimulus from entering consciousness).
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If this is indeed what you meant Permacultural and Crescent Moon, then am I to understand that my belief that I do not understand is actually a defense mechanism? And if so, what would be an example of a troubling stimulus?
I am open to the idea that it is a defense mechanism - not because I can see it in me, but because defense mechanisms by their nature tend to be difficult to see.