单词 | acting out |
释义 | acting outn. 1. The action or an act of translating something into action; (Psychoanalysis) the action or an act of expressing repressed or unconscious feelings in overt behaviour. Cf. to act out 1 at act v. Phrasal verbs. ΚΠ 1832 G. Redford & J. A. James in W. B. Sprague Lect. Revivals Relig. p. xxii In such an attempt, no extravagance is intended or included, but only a consistent use of means, an acting out of our principles. 1861 W. Branks Heaven our Home (1864) x. 144 Perhaps his whole life was a riddle, and all that he did was just the acting-out of a strange parable. 1955 T. H. Pear Eng. Social Differences 27 The conscious identification of an individual with a social class, and the acting-out of this identification with organizational participation. 1974 J. McGahern Leavetaking ii. 132 The relationship with Roberto was a living or acting out of what I had felt for my father. 2003 J. Nelmes Introd. Film Stud. (ed. 3) vii. 263 In the Bluebeard shadow play the axe is used to kill his wives, and an acting out of the play in an earlier sequence foreshadows Stewart attacking Ada. 2. The action of behaving badly or antisocially as a deliberate response to an unwelcome or distressing situation. Cf. to act out 2 at act v. Phrasal verbs. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > other mental illnesses neurosis1783 mutism1824 Americanitis1882 lata1884 miryachit1884 negativism1892 obsession1892 ressentiment1896 resentment1899 pseudologia1903 echopraxia1904 complex1907 pseudo-homosexuality1908 regression1910 kleptolagnia1917 sadomasochism1919 poriomania1921 superiority complex1921 martyr complex1926 rejection1931 nemesism1938 acting out1945 catathymia1949 elective mutism1950 psychosyndrome1965 panic attack1966 Munchausen syndrome by proxy1977 Polle syndrome1977 panic disorder1978 chronic factitious disorder1980 bigorexia1985 fabricated or induced illness1994 selective mutism1999 1945 O. Fenichel in Psychoanalytic Rev. 32 197 ‘Acting out’, as distinguished from the other phenomena, is an acting, not a mere feeling, not a mere thinking, not a mere mimic expression, not a mere single movement. This..distinguishes it from symptom formation. 1963 New Society 7 Nov. 22/2 A group of bright boys who have acting-out problems that prevent them from following a formal programme. 2006 J. Garbarino See Jane Hit vi. 144 Abused children..are more likely to develop a chronic pattern of aggression, bad behavior, acting out, and violating the rights of others. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1832 |
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