COVER -- Foreword to the 1966 Edition -- Contents -- Part I: Theory of the Mechanisms of Defense -- CHAPTER 1. THE EGO AS THE SEAT OF OBSERVATION -- Definition of Psychoanalysis -- The Id, the Ego, and the Superego in Self-Perception -- The Ego as Observer -- Inroads by the Id and by the Ego Considered as Material for Observation -- CHAPTER 2. THE APPLICATION OF ANALYTIC TECHNIQUE TO THE STUDY OF THE PSYCHIC INSTITUTIONS -- Hypnotic Technique in the Preandytic Period -- Free Association -- Interpretation of Dreams -- Interpretation of Symbols -- Parapraxes -- Transference -- TRANSFERENCE OF LIBIDINAL IMPULSES -- TRANSFERENCE OF DEFENSE -- ACTING IN THE TRANSFERENCE -- The Relation between the Analysis of the Id and That of the Ego -- One-Sidedness in Analytic Technique and the Difficulties to Which It Leads -- CHAPTER 3. THE EGO'S DEFENSIVE OPERATIONS CONSIDERED AS AN OBJECT OF ANALYSIS -- The Relation of the Ego to the Analytic Method -- Defense against Instinct, Manifesting Itself as Resistance -- Defense against Affects -- Permanent Defense Phenomena -- Symptom Formation -- Analytic Technique and the Defense Against Insistance and Affects -- CHAPTER 4. THE MECHANISMS OF DEFENSE -- Psychoanalytic Theory and the Mechanisms of Defense -- A Comparison of the Results Achieved by the Different Mechanisms in Individual Cases -- Suggestions for a Chronological Classification -- CHAPTER 5. ORIENTATION OF THE PROCESSES OF DEFENSE ACCORDING TO THE SOURCE OF ANXIETY AND DANGER -- Motives for the Defense against Instincts -- SUPEREGO ANXIETY IN THE NEUROSES OF ADULTS -- OBJECTIVE ANXIETY IN INFANTILE NEUROSIS -- INSTINCTUAL ANXIETY (DREAD OF THE STRENGTH OF THE INSTINCTS) -- Further Motives for the Defense against Instinct -- Motives for the Defense against Affects.

Verification of Our Conclusions in Analytic Practice -- Considerations Bearing upon Psychoanalytic Therapy -- Part ll: Examples of the Avoidance of Objective Unpleasure and Objective Danger Preliminary Stages of Defense -- CHAPTER 6. DENIAL IN FANTASY -- CHAPTER 7. DENIAL IN WORD AND ACT -- CHAPTER 8. RESTRICTION OF THE EGO -- Part III: Examples of Two Types of Defense -- CHAPTER 9. IDENTIFICATION WITH THE AGGRESSOR -- CHAPTER 10. A FORM OF ALTRUISM -- Part IV: Defense Motivated by Fear of the Strength of the Instincts Illustrated by the Phenomena of Puberty -- CHAPTER 11. THE EGO AND THE ID AT PUBERTY -- CHAPTER 12. INSTINCTUAL ANXIETY DURING PUBERTY -- Asceticism at Puberty -- Intellectuaiization at Puberty -- Object Love and Identification at Puberty -- CONCLUSION -- Bibliography -- Index.