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Sigmund Freud referred to projection, sublimation, reaction formation, displacement—all tools of self-distancing from problems that touch the ego too profoundly.

All the time, he was talking about denial, repression, splitting, reaction formation and ego-defense mechanisms.

Now we know from neuropsychology that burning ambition in later years represents a reaction formation to infantile bed wetting.

Only now and then have we found in the dream traces of reaction formations, as, for instance, the tenderness toward friend R. in the "uncle dream."

But in general it is necessary to separate from each other sublimation and reaction formation as two diverse processes.