Rationalizing Dexter

The season five finale of Dexter is behind us, but (thankfully) we'll continue to share some thoughts from The Psychology of Dexter contributors over the next few weeks.

Today, we have Wind Goodfriend's guest post.

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In my chapter of The Psychology of Dexter, written with co-author Chase Barrick, we argued that Dexter is the reigning king of Freudian defense mechanisms. For those readers who haven't read the chapter or who didn't take Psych 101 in college, Freud argued that "defense...