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Essay:

The frustration.

Alejandrina Vargas

Group: A

Bachelor's Degree in Education

January.
 Introduction
This paper will address the topic of frustration, focusing on
It covers basic aspects such as the What is it? revisiting concepts of
different authors, what are some of the sources that originate it?, that is to say,
the factors, causes that provoke it, as well as some of the types handled
in the book Theories of Personality 3rd edition (2003). Which are of type
barrier, which arises when a person faces an obstacle that prevents them from
prevents achieving its goal due to incompatible objectives. When a
the person focuses on two objectives but they are not compatible, due to conflict
avoidance - eivtación. One faces this problem when falling into such a situation
that two or more objectives end up being negative or due to approach conflict.
avoidance.

Additionally, some defense mechanisms that are presented are covered.

people when they are victims of this phenomenon (frustration).
 FRUSTRATION

What is frustration?

Frustration is a phenomenon that every person experiences, it occurs

when their behavior is affected due to the blocking of one
or various objectives. The Universal Illustrated Encyclopedia European-American volume
XXIV, (1924) reveals that for Freud 'frustration responds to a situation'
in which the subject sees the satisfaction of a demand repressed.

This phenomenon is the representation of a set of emotions or

compressed feelings caused by the existence of conflicts
psychological. That is to say, this situation is something completely unpleasant and
bitter to live it.

However, in the Microsoft Encarta Reference Library (2005) there is

define frustration as an 'emotional state that occurs in the individual
when he fails to reach the desired object.

In addition, it is important to know that frustration is something that cannot be

to measure, the people who suffer from it have different personalities, ways of
to think and to react, therefore, there are different ways to manifest it.

Sources that give rise to frustration.

The sources of frustration depend heavily on the context in

which is carried out, as it takes into account the environment surrounding the(s)
affected person(s).

There are two sources that originate frustration, which can be external or
internal (Microsoft Encarta Research Library, 2005, 2; Lomelí, et al, 2006).
External sources.

In these sources, as their name suggests, the issues are raised that
they are in sight as these can be physical or social. Where the physical ones are
they take into account issues related to oneself but
valued by others. For example, the absence of a body part,
physical complexion, skin color; the lack of any material object such as cars
money, houses, etcetera and even some events of everyday life that
they become unpleasant, they can be the breakdown of a car, the lack
of some public service, etc. (Microsoft Encarta Reference Library, 2005,
2; Lomelí, et al, 2006).

Internal sources.

They are the ones that are directly related to the individual's self-esteem,
they can be physical like blindness or the absence of a body part; they can also
they can be personal characteristics that encompass appearance, some weakness
intellectual or mental illness, which can be phobias, depressions, etc.
(Microsoft Encarta Reference Library, 2005, 2; Lomelí, et al, 2006).

Types

In the book Theories of Personality 3rd edition (2003), it is said that there are 4
basic processes of frustration that answer the question of why people
they reach a state of frustration:

By barrier. It occurs when a person faces an obstacle that hinders them.

prevents achieving its objective. A situation that serves as an example in this case is
when the individual decides to pursue a professional career whose cost is very
above the income they receive, therefore it will be impossible for them to access
that level of education.
Due to incompatible objectives. When a person focuses on two
objectives but these are not compatible, such is the case when an individual decides
studying two professional careers at the same time will face the
schedule incompatibility (since those courses are taught at the same time)
this prevents both objectives from being achieved, we could also talk
of situations in daily life when you face a dilemma between relieving
an illness (comparing medications or devices) and obligations like a
mortgage or cover a tuition fee | therefore, one or the other must be given up
objective.

Due to conflict avoidance-evitation. It faces this problem when it falls into

a situation where two or more objectives end up being negative. We could
take as an example the fact of wanting to obtain money but the means to
getting them are games of chance (casinos) where in the end you end up investing
much more money than I could earn even if I fell into a vice.

Due to approach-avoidance conflict. When the goal is both positive and negative.
At the same time, it falls into indecision since the results it will obtain are random.
The fact of deciding to study two completely different careers at the same time
time presents us with possible benefits such as a superior economic benefit,
more learning and experience but it can also confront us with the failure of not
to achieve neither of the two, or the fact of deciding to abandon one of them leads us
face the fact of always thinking that the other could have been a better option.

Reactions to the situation of frustration.

Reactions to frustration are not only limited to the sources that

originates, if not as already mentioned, largely depends on personality
of the subject.

Frustration in most cases is linked to focused aggression.

directly to the cause of that frustration which can even be directed towards oneself
individual. In case the aggression is suppressed, a process is triggered of
regression, which will be detailed later.
 In addition to aggression, sadness or depression may occur, these
situations can be conscious or unconscious. When they are conscious, they do not
They distort personality, but if they are unconscious, they imply a strong
emotional discharge can lead to neurosis.
It is also important to emphasize that frustration tolerance is a
primordial factor in the adaptation of the individual.
Reactions to frustration can be classified as reactions
"oriented to reality" or "defense mechanisms where the reactions
oriented to reality can be addressed through relatively direct means to
problem concentrating on attempts to modify, change or suppress the
situation that it provokes. When this is not possible, we react using
defense mechanisms that are a series of reactions that maintain the
internal balance that causes frustration and reconcile harmony between the
impulses that this generates.
The use of defense mechanisms is always done unconsciously.
Some examples are presented below.
Reality-oriented reactions

Attack and aggression.- It is a behavior that involves causing harm to an object or

person, that is, aggression can be interpreted as a demonstration of

a destruction instinct.

Flight or retreat. - It is often observed when aggression is not

possible or simply when aggression has not released the frustrating situation.

Substitutions or compromises.- It specifically refers to the search for

a goal or output similar to the original, that is, it is given if the frustrating situation does not

is defeated by aggression or by fleeing.

Reactions of defense mechanisms

Defense mechanisms are all those actions that interpret

any change in people when they try to prevent a certain thing from happening
situation seen and/or understood as a threat to oneself. As its name
It says, they are the actions in the form of protection for the individual.
In the defense mechanisms, the issue known as 'instance' applies.
"yoica" which refers to the "I", this requires constant work by the
a person to create a control between 'being and doing', that is, takes into account their
think and act.
Each of the defenses applied in the exposed impulses are usually
demonstrated in an unconscious way.

Defenses are usually divided into: successful defenses, which achieve termination.
from the impulse or affection that is rejected, and ineffective defenses, which force a
repetition or perpetuation of the process. In reality, the line between one and the other is
very subtle. The defenses generated by an obsession constitute the basis of the
neurosis. It is important to emphasize that among the defense mechanisms specific to
A healthy self and the reactive symptoms of the neurotic do not have a clear distinction.

Successful defenses are commonly known as sublimations.

they understand as formulas in which, under a perfectly
self-aware, the end or the object of the impulse changes without producing it
a blockage of impulsive download. In sublimation, the original impulse
it disappears because it loses its energy for the benefit of charging its substitute.

On the contrary, in the defenses caused by a psychic illness, the

the anxiety of the original impulse can only be controlled through action
opposite. Therefore, the rejected instincts do not transform into something different,
but its release is blocked, so they remain in the unconscious and
disconnected from the rest of the personality. Among such defense mechanisms
can include:

Regression.- As its name suggests, it is a defense mechanism that

it involves the regression of the individual's psychological development to their

primary functioning, that is to say, there is a return to certain forms of behavior

regularly childish.
 Projection.- The one-color encyclopedic dictionary (2000) mentions that
this defense mechanism consists of unconsciously attributing to others and
to perceive in the outside world one's own drives and internal conflicts

Repression.-For the Microsoft Encarta Reference Library (2005) it is the

psychic process that consists of renouncing the satisfaction of a desire,
conscious and voluntary form.

Among others.
 Conclusion
This work revealed that frustration is an emotional state,
for which each and every one of us is prone to suffer, for we all in
At some point in our lives, we set goals or objectives that in
on occasions, for one reason or another, they find themselves blocked, and simply do not
they can do.

Those blockages are often transmitted from internal sources or

external, taking the word "sources" as the causes that provoke it.

These sources or causes of frustration often occur when an individual is

faces personal issues or issues to which one is exposed before the
society.
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