"formation" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The concept of reaction formation has been used to explain responses to external threats as well as internal anxieties.
- "We call that a reaction formation," he said.
- That, to quote Freud himself, is a reaction formation.
- Then there is the "reaction formation" against the childhood dependency on women as mothers, he said.
- Another one would be reaction formation, turning something into its opposite.
- Er, reaction formation, that's a very common one.
- Berman then tried another tactic; he switched to what the psychiatrists call reaction formation.
- In other words, Picasso's neo-classicism was pure reaction formation.
- 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.
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