Question

Prolonged efforts of the ego to keep unconscious material from surfacing may result in ________, where the ego collapses and psychological functioning ceases.

Answer 1

psychosis

Step-by-step explanation:

Psychoanalysis was the first psychological current that studied the psychotic, which is a patient with a mental disorder who establishes a separation between reality and himself.

Psychosis is understood as the set of mental alterations that generate an alteration in the perception of reality, losing contact with it and causing severe difficulties in the functioning of perception, thought and behavior.