A possible explanation is found in various psychoanalytic theories, which have generally explained homophobia as a threat to an individual's own homosexual impulses causing repression, denial, or reaction formation ( or all three; West, 1977 ).
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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 ."
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Thus, where love is experienced as a reaction formation against hate, we cannot say that love is substituted for hate, because the original aggressive feelings still exist underneath the affectionate exterior that merely " masks " the hate to hide it from awareness.
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Here her'cataloguing of regression, repression, reaction formation, isolation, undoing, projection, introjection, turning against the self, reversal and sublimation'helped establish the importance of the ego functions and the concept of defence mechanisms, continuing the greater emphasis on the ego of her father 'We should like to learn more about the ego' during his final decades.
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The album debuted on the ! Earshot Monthly Top 200 Chart at No . 100 in September, 2012 and the song " Reaction Formation " entered the CBC Radio 3 R3-30 Chart the week ending October 12 at No . 9 . It stayed on the chart for four weeks, peaking at No . 5.
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Prior to and concurrent with a career in radio, McGuinn played in rock bands, starting in high school and college as guitarist and songwriter with Reaction Formation, an'80s era indie rock band that toured the Midwest extensively and released several 7 " singles and cassettes, some for Go2 Records, a subsidiary of Minneapolis-based Susstones Records.
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Studies on the neurological basis of different defense mechanisms have revealed that the use of immature defense mechanisms, such as denial, projection, and fantasy, is tied to glucose metabolization in the left prefrontal cortex, while more mature defense mechanisms, such as intellectualization, reaction formation, compensation, and isolation, are associated with glucose metabolization in the right hemisphere.
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The term " self-righteous " is often considered derogatory ( see, for example, journalist and essayist James Fallows'description of self-righteousness in regard to Nobel Peace Prize winners ) particularly because self-righteous individuals are often thought to exhibit hypocrisy due to the belief that humans are imperfect and can therefore never be infallible, an idea similar to that of the Freudian defense mechanism of reaction formation.
