Don't we develop defence mechanisms against repressed memories and fantasies, against unconscious content incongruent with our self-image?
"Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema"
Sam Vaknin
Some excellences bear to be united, and are improved by union, others are of a discordant nature; and the attempt to join them only produces a harsher jarring of incongruent principles.
"Seven Discourses on Art"
Joshua Reynolds