Monday, June 01, 2009

Displacement


This man is demeaning his wife, who's less threatening than him and maybe his boss at work who yelled at him for messing things up. He needs an outlet of his anger so he chooses a weaker subject to be it. "It's your fault I got yelled at work." He's expressing displacement.
Displacement: shifting aggressive impulses toward a less threatening object or person. One of the defense mechanisms.

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