Similar words: affirmative action, information, misinformation, information technology, reaction, formation, reformation, reactionary. Meaning: n. (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.
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1. An interesting example of a reaction formation is one displayed by men who are afraid of any sign of softness, which they equate with feminity , in their make-up.
2. Maybe this is a reaction formation. People give every effort to make noise in the external world just for the sake of dissembling the desolation and loneliness in our soul.
3. His strict morality is just a reaction formation to hide his sexual drive.
4. Denial, displacement, intellectualization, fantasy, compensation, projection, rationalization, reaction formation, regression, repression and sublimation were the defense mechanisms Freud identified.
5. There are three stages during sealed reaction:low sealed reaction stage, transition stage and sealed reaction formation stage(highly sealed reaction stage).
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