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Freeman compares and contrasts the role of introjection, projection, and identification in neurosis and psychosis. In neurosis a relatively intact ego utilizes these mechanisms to deal with the drives after the failure of repression. Processes of identification, introjection, and projection play a part in the struggle of the ego against the drives. In psychosis defenses are not a primary aspect of the disease. The essence of the disease is in ego defects. It is not the result of a defensive