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reaction formation

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Noun

(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
- his strict morality is just a reaction formation to hide his sexual drive

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