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Sigmund Freud first used defense as a psychoanalytic term (1894), but he did not break the notion into categories, viewing it as a singular phenomenon of repression. His daughter, Anna Freud , expanded on his theories in the 1930s, distinguishing some of the major defense mechanisms recognized today.

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