Usually means: Concealing desires with opposite behaviors.
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Definitions from Wikipedia (Reaction formation)

▸ noun:  In psychoanalytic theory, reaction formation is a defense mechanism in which emotions, desires and impulses that are anxiety-producing or unacceptable to the ego are mastered by exaggeration of the directly opposing tendency.


Opposite:
displacement, sublimation, projection

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displacement, sublimation, projection




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