From: joe_f@verizon.net   
      
   Martha Bridegam  writes:   
      
   > Joe Fineman wrote:   
   >> Martha Bridegam  writes:   
   >>   
   >>> I've seen people act like this in divorces -- magnifying the ex's   
   >>> faults to reassure themselves that separating was the right thing to   
   >>> do. It's a sign of secret ambivalence about whether they really   
   >>> should try to make up again.   
   >> Psychologists investigate this phenomenon under the silly-sounding   
   >> rubric of "cognitive dissonance".   
   >   
   > Not "reaction formation"? Or is it both?   
      
   I don't know.  "Reaction formation" sounds vaguely Freudian to me, but   
   I doubt if I ever knew what it meant.  Perhaps they are merely in the   
   languages of different tribes.   
   --   
   ---  Joe Fineman    joe_f@verizon.net   
      
   ||:  Because of the market, what is overrated is overpriced.   :||   
   ||:  Because of foolishness, what is overpriced is overrated.  :||   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)