reaction formation
reaction formation A psychoanalytic concept denoting one type of defence mechanism. When a feeling or idea is felt to be especially threatening it may be dealt with by enthusiastically embracing its opposite. Thus a man who is threatened by his own homosexual feelings might engage in aggressive heterosexual behaviour.
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