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    Challenges→Deflationary and deep-conflict accounts of self-deception may not describe the same psychological kind

    If a unified psychoanalytic mechanism underlies both phenomena, then deflationary and deep-conflict cases may be continuous rather than categorically distinct.

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    • 1.Psychoanalytic mechanisms (repression, projection, etc.) operate on a spectrum of intensity rather than in discrete types.
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    • 2.Clinical observation shows cases transitioning between shallow and deep conflict, suggesting continuity not categorical boundaries.
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    • 3.A unified mechanism better explains why similar defenses appear across different symptom severities and presentations.
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    • 1.Deflationary cases may involve conscious coping; deep conflicts involve unconscious forces—fundamentally different causal structures.
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    • 2.Qualitative differences in symptom origin (situational vs. structural) don't reduce to degree variations of one mechanism.
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    • 3.Assuming unified mechanisms risks conflating correlation with identity; different phenomena may share surface features but distinct etiologies.
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