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Negation (Freud)
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rejecting a fact despite the overwhelming evidence of its truth based on fear of its outcome
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Denial, abnegation or Negation (German: Verleugnung, Verneinung) is a psychological defense mechanism postulated by psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, in which a person is faced with a fact that is too uncomfortable to accept and rejects it instead, insisting that it is not true despite what may be overwhelming evidence.

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