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Reaction Formation

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Noun

1. reaction formation

(psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which a person unconsciously develops attitudes and behavior that are the opposite of unacceptable repressed desires and impulses and serve to conceal them

Example Sentences:
'his strict morality is just a reaction formation to hide his sexual drive'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Reaction Formation

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

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Reaction Formation

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Psychoanalysis
an unconscious reaction in which a feeling or trait finds expression as the exact opposite of a repressed feeling or impulse

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Reaction Formation

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n.
A psychological defense mechanism by which a repressed impulse is expressed in an opposite or contrasting behavior.

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