From the psychodynamic perspective, compulsions are acts which ______

a. symbolically fulfill unconscious sexual desires
b. help to keep unconscious impulses repressed
c. represent a failure of the ego to cope with the real world effectively
d. represent a failure of the superego to establish realistic moral standards

B

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