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conflict

In 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.


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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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