Download or read book Sincerity and Other Works written by Donald Meltzer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-30 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author formulates here the existence of an anxiety apparatus whose functioning is a part of the ego and the personality structure and illustrates how in attacking this apparatus the ego is attacking itself. An example is given of the workings of the death instinct, and a differentiation is made between the ego's defence mechanisms and other pathological character devices.