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Ego's Defense Mechanism In Good Will Hunting By Gus Van Sant

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Projection is an Ego’s defense mechanism that displaces the unwanted feelings to a person that appears as a threat to their thoughts. Projection is evident in the movie Good Will Hunting, directed by Gus Van Sant. It is about Will Hunting, a janitor at MIT, which is an unrecognizable genius. He spends his days drinking and fighting until he got a prosecution agreement to help Professor Lambeau while receiving therapy from Dr. Sean Maguire. Will struggles to open up his past experiences in the process of finding his true identity because he lacks the needed relationship with his caregiver due to an abusive foster father. Due to an attachment disorder, Will’s Id is a feeling of aggression that stems from the abandonment of people that he loved.
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