<Li> Transference - unwittingly transferring feelings about one person to become applied to another person; </Li> <Li> Projection - projecting internal feelings or motives, instead ascribing them to other things or people; </Li> <Li> Resistance - holding a mental block against remembering or accepting some events or ideas . </Li> <P> The mental conflicts were analyzed from the viewpoint that the patients, initially, did not understand how such feelings were occurring at a subconscious level, hidden inside their minds .' It is free association within language that is the key to representing the prohibited and forbidden desire...to access unconscious affective memory' . </P>

The blocking of free association in psychoanalytic therapy by a defense mechanism is defined as