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hypercompensation en · NOUN

Etymology

From hyper- + compensation.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Excessive compensation for something.
   • This identification gives rise to the ego alienation of the Jew from his original archetypal constellations expressed by the Jewish culture; therefore the frequent processes of unconscious hypercompensations become sources of neurosis. 2011, Andrew Samuels, Psychopathology: Contemporary Jungian Perspectives, page 317:
   • Manifestations of this “protection” can be various. They are — apathy, lack of interest in the surroundings, defiant behavior (hypercompensation of the inferiority complex), etc. 2008, Vladimir Antonov, Spiritual Work With Children, page 60:

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hypercompensatory