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(psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
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hypernym
process, unconscious process psychoanalytic process
domain of synset (topic)
psychiatry, psychopathology, psychological medicine
hyponym
compensation conversion denial displacement idealization, idealisation intellectualization, intellectualisation isolation projection rationalization, rationalisation reaction formation regression repression