tating habitual residue (Goleman, 1985, pp. 119-123).
These techniques for avoiding pain can be examined as strategic participation in such basic human activities as repression. Freud classically termed repression as "the simple defense of directly keeping a thought, impulse, or memory from awareness" (Goleman, 1985, p. 119). Denial allows individuals to ignore the actual situations which surround them, often threatening to engulf them (Goleman, 1985, p. 120). When an individual relies upon projection for the distancing of their own emotion, he is "projecting" his own feelings onto others through the two basic principles of "denial and displacement" (Goleman, 1985, p. 120). Isolation allows one to blank out one's feelings and turn inward into a state of semi-denial. Rationalization which can be catchingly rephrased as "I give myself a cover story" "allows the denial of one's true motives by covering over unpleasant impulses with a cloak of reasonableness" (Goleman, 1985, p. 121). Sublimation allows one to replace the threatening with the safe. One is able to satisfy an "unacceptable impulse indirectly by taking an approved object" (Goleman, 1985, p. 121). In displacement which is seen as a parallel maneuver, an individual impulsively "takes any object, acceptable or not" (Goleman, 1985, p. 121).
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