Sentence examples for reaction formation from inspiring English sources

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

Published in 1971, it found evidence, in the donors, of primitive masochism, reaction formation against early sadism, homosexual conflict, pregnancy symbolism, and penis envy.

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

Dr. Varga, the father of two daughters, ages 13 and 15, blames a strong "reaction formation" in some adults who, trying not to recapitulate their parents' authoritarian style, "end up lopsided the other way".

Did Freud actually intend to claim that over time guilt for the murder had enhanced Moses' status and his legacy of monotheism, creating in the Jews what Freud liked to call a "reaction formation"?

"He shames one, Lawrence, Henry Millerr wrote, while Diana Trilling argued that those who disdained Lawrence were exhibiting what psychoanalysts call a reaction formation: "Lawrence hits so directly at our weaknesses that we rush to the attack upon his weaknesses".

Freudian concepts were taken up by intellectuals, who wrote about cathexes, screen memories, and reaction formations, and they were absorbed into popular discourse.

Typical of these reactions are acid base reactions, oxidation reduction reactions, formation of coordination complexes, and formation of free radicals.

DSC studies indicated that the major exothermic reactions (formation of carbides) take place within 850 1150 °C.

A kinetic model was developed taking into account catalytic and non-catalytic reactions, formation of refractory compounds and catalyst deactivation.

A heterogeneous reaction model is developed to represent the gas solid reaction consisting of two-step reactions: formation of a solid intermediate on the core of unreacted solid and consumption of the solid intermediate.