PSYCHOLOGICAL DEFENSIVE MECHANISMS OF WOMEN, WHO ARE IN SEARCH OF A PARTNER IN LIFE, HAVING FORMED IN SOCIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERACTION WITH THEIR FATHERS

Abstract

The article describes a specific aspect of socio-psychological interaction between father and daughter. The author studies the peculiarities of father’s image influence on forming a woman’s socio-psychological defensive mechanisms when she is at the stage of moving into adulthood. The research is based on S.Freud definition "psychological defence”, as well as on the data of Russian scientists who carried out investigations of teenagers’ behaviour. The comparative analysis of the sources and personal research performed by the author enable to draw the conclusion that women’s emotional infantile traumas, which they got in relationship with their fathers, results in non-adaptive behaviour, violation of gender-role identity; and lead to selecting an "ideal” partner in life who supports their traumatizing experience and is identical to their fathers.