15 It is, perhaps, not easy to perceive that self-initiated plans are but defenses, with the purpose all of them were made to realize. 2They are the means by which a frightened mind would undertake its own protection, at the cost of truth. 3This is not difficult to realize in some forms which these self-deceptions take, for the denial of reality is very obvious. 4Yet planning is not often recognized as a defense.
