signal anxiety
Psychoanalysis
noun
Anxiety which alerts the ego to danger and stimulates defence mechanisms.
- This theory was put forward in 1926 by Sigmund Freud in his Hemmung, Symptom und Angst..
Origin
1920s; earliest use found in International Journal of Psycho-analysis.
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