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reaction-formation:

see defense mechanismdefense mechanism,
in psychoanalysis, any of a variety of unconscious personality reactions which the ego uses to protect the conscious mind from threatening feelings and perceptions.
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As Elias shows, however, both the postmodern and postcolonial metahistorical romances share "an attempt to counter the forces of modernization" and represent "a reaction-formation to the trauma of history itself" (xiv).

Amy J. Elias. Sublime Desire. History and Post-1960 Fiction

viii) represent, O'Donnell argues, a "reaction-formation par excellence to the schizophrenias of postmodern identity, economy, and aesthetics" (p.

Latent Destinies. Cultural Paranoia and Contemporary U.S. Narrative. (Reviews)

So what is involved here is less a "sublimation" of the past, as Silver proposes, than a reaction-formation to it, in which what is opposed by the art is also carried forward in it.

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