| 单词 | reaction formation |
| 释义 | > as lemmasreaction formation reaction formation n. [after German Reaktionsbildung (1905 in the passage translated in quot. 1910)] Psychoanalysis (Freud's term for) the tendency of a repressed wish or feeling to be expressed in a contrasting form. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > psychology > theory of psychoanalysis > theories of Freud > [noun] > contrastive expression reaction formation1910 reactive formation1946 1910 A. A. Brill tr. S. Freud Three Contrib. to Sexual Theory iii. 83 A sub-species of sublimation is the suppression through reaction-formation [Ger. Reaktionsbildung], which..begins even in the latency period of infancy. 1924 J. Riviere et al. tr. S. Freud Coll. Papers II. iv. 50 The permanent character-traits are either unchanged perpetuations of the original impulses, sublimations of them, or reaction-formations against them. 1974 W. B. Arndt Theories of Personality xvii. 349 Another common example of reaction formation is where repressed hostility for a person, say a mother's hostility toward her child, is converted by the ego into excessive concern for his well being. 1997 W. I. Miller Anat. Disgust i. 5 Freud was more expansive; he lumped disgust with shame and morality, treating them as ‘reaction formations’, whose function it is to inhibit the consummation of unconscious desire. < as lemmas |
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