Another one would be reaction formation, turning something into its opposite.

Then there is the "reaction formation" against the childhood dependency on women as mothers, he said.

"We call that a reaction formation," he said.

He saw this as a reaction formation to the child's having to give up pleasure in anal eroticism.

When the individual displays reaction formation (love to hate) this is a neurotic defense mechanism.

Berman then tried another tactic; he switched to what the psychiatrists call reaction formation.

"That, to quote Freud himself, is a reaction formation.

In other words, Picasso's neo-classicism was pure reaction formation.

Er, reaction formation, that's a very common one.

This threat causes repression, denial or reaction formation.

The mechanism of reaction formation is often characteristic of obsessional neuroses.

- Reaction formation - An individual substitutes their feelings or thoughts or behavior with the exact opposite.

The concept of reaction formation has been used to explain responses to external threats as well as internal anxieties.

(b) He/she is fearful of the dead, and transforms his/her fear - by means of reaction formation - into a desire.

Reaction formation Freud had termed it: the embrace of noble deeds in order to mask festering impulses.

A man who is overly aroused by pornographic material who uses reaction formation may take on an attitude of criticism toward the topic.

A reaction formation is used to exaggerate heterosexual behavior outwardly, to relieve inward anxiety regarding homosexual desires.

For example, and it is not unknown for an analyst to explain a client's unconditional pacifism as a reaction formation against their sadism.

This...I wouldn't be at all surprised if it's what the old Freudians called 'reaction formation.'"

They become frustrated at the disadvantages and inequalities that they face, and this leads to Cohen's second principle; reaction formation.

Psychologists often refer to a list of generally used defences: repression, denial, displacement, splitting, projection and reaction formation are the most commonly used.

The different types of defense mechanisms are : Repression, reaction formation, denial, projection, displacement, sublimation, regression, and rationalization.

Reaction formation is the reaction from status frustration, and the young men of the lower classes find themselves replacing their society's norms and values with alternative ones.

Denial, displacement, intellectualisation, fantasy, compensation, projection, rationalization, reaction formation, regression, repression, and sublimation were the defense mechanisms Freud identified.

A psychiatrist might say that I am experiencing "reaction formation," that I am compensating for my subconscious feelings of fear or loathing.