defense mechanism

3. associating with people of higher status in order to increase your own status
5. unconsciously forgetting information that is too painful to recall
8. using exercise or physical activity as a substitute for sexual energies
9. emphasizing personal strengths in one area to shift focus from your failure and weaknesses
13. when young boys automatically try to satisfy their needs
14. refusing to accept an obvious situation because of the emotional pain it causes
16. reverting to childlike behavior to get what you want from the attention you got when you were young
18. describing painful or emotional personal events in academic or philosophical terms

1. formation replacing emotions you have for feelings that are socially unacceptable
2. making logical excuses for illogical behavior
4. when you intend to say one thing but say something else
6. casting the feelings you have onto other people and blame them for the cause of your emotions.
7. what Sigmund Freud discovered
10. morality principal
11. reality principal
12. pleasurable principal
15. this is the expression of consciousness without censorship as an aid to the unconscious process
17. taking out one's anger or frustration on a person or object that is not the cause
19. a redirect of emotions from your childhood