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conflictIn psychology, a struggle resulting from incompatible or opposing needs, drives, wishes, or demands. Interpersonal conflict represents such a struggle between two or more people, while internal conflict is a mental struggle. A child experiencing internal conflict, for example, may be dependent on his mother but fear her because she is rejecting and punitive. Conflicts that are not readily resolved may cause the person to suffer helplessness and anxiety. See also learned helplessness. conflict Psychol opposition between two simultaneous but incompatible wishes or drives, sometimes leading to a state of emotional tension and thought to be responsible for neuroses conflict [′kän‚flikt] (psychology) A mental struggle that arises from the simultaneous operation of opposing impulses, drives, and external or internal demand. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. He laid too great stress on what he called the class struggle, the antagonism between labor and capital, the conflict of interest.
A great conflict was about to come off between the Birds and the Beasts. |
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