In psychoanalytic theory, reaction formation is a defense mechanism in which emotions, desires and impulses that are anxiety-producing or unacceptable to the ego are mastered through exaggeration of the directly opposing tendency, so that an unacceptable feeling is outwardly replaced by its opposite.
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Core ClaimReaction formation is a defense mechanism in which anxiety-producing or unacceptable emotions, desires and impulses are mastered by exaggeration of the directly opposing tendency. 1 First Described Year Classification
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emotions, desires and impulses that are anxiety-producing or unacceptable to the ego are mastered by exaggeration of the directly opposing tendency
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In psychoanalytic theory, reaction formation (German: Reaktionsbildung) is a defense mechanism in which emotions, desires and impulses that are anxiety-producing or unacceptable to the ego are mastered by exaggeration of the directly opposing tendency.
In Branch: Personality Psychology, Lead sentence
In psychoanalytic theory, reaction formation (German: Reaktionsbildung) is a defense mechanism in which emotions, desires and impulses that are anxiety-producing or unacceptable to the ego are mastered by exaggeration of the directly opposing tendency.
In Group: Defense Mechanisms, Lead
In psychoanalytic theory, reaction formation (German: Reaktionsbildung) is a defense mechanism in which emotions, desires and impulses that are anxiety-producing or unacceptable to the ego are mastered by exaggeration of the directly opposing tendency.
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Simply PsychologyCharacter and Anal Erotism sectionQuote, Character and Anal Erotism section
Reaction formation first appears as a distinct mechanism in Character and Anal Erotism (1908).
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