reaction formation









reaction formation


noun Psychoanalysis.

  1. a behavioral tendency developed in direct opposition to a repressed impulse.

noun

  1. psychoanal a defence mechanism by which a person at a conscious level condemns a repressed wish: thus, a latent homosexual may denounce homosexuality

n.

  1. A defense mechanism by which an objectionable impulse is expressed in an opposite or contrasting attitude or behavior.
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