What Freud conceived of as defense mechanisms is similar to what Sullivan labeled: constructive reveries. security operations. personifications. dynamisms.

security operations.

Explanation:

Security operations: In psychology, the term "security operations" are defined by one of the famous US psychoanalyst named Harry Stack Sullivan and it includes many "interpersonal protective procedures" that are responsible for keeping a defense against a decrease in "self-confidence" in an individual.

According to Sullivan, security operations are considered as a process that encompasses the absence of any sort of anxiety. Security operations are referred to as a specific self-systems that tends to develop a set of mechanisms.

In the question above, the given statement represents security operations.

In the most important works of art that come from the USA at the early stages of its history in the 18th century, there is call to become united with nature and follow its principles, which are higher than man made conventions and its limited forms of consciousness; to merge with nature and go out and explore it to form higher spheres of spirituality and found new towns and cities in unknown lands in order to exploit the land´s resources more adequately. One can think of three notable examples: the transcendentalists like Thoreau, the Hudson River School of painting, and novels such as Melville´s Moby D-i-c-k.