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Rationalization   Listen
noun
Rationalization  n.  The act or process of rationalizing.






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"Rationalization" Quotes from Famous Books



... patent that the nature of this process of rationalization will depend largely upon the mental make-up of the individual—of the body of knowledge and traditions with which his mind has become stored in the course of his personal experience. The influences to which he has been exposed, daily and hourly, ...
— The Evolution of the Dragon • G. Elliot Smith

... the Freudian ideas are themselves unconscious illustrations of the truth and accuracy and general applicability of the Freudian dicta. In this argument they accuse their opponents of unconsciously indulging in or being victims of a defense mechanism, as a means of self-justification and self-rationalization, based on repression, sexuality, etc., in order that their hidden, unconscious, repressed, forgotten desires, tendencies and inclinations may not be brought to the surface and consciously acknowledged. In other words, in my particular ...
— The Journal of Abnormal Psychology - Volume 10



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