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but instead of turning it to a sexual or aggressive target
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what you do is you focus it in some other way.
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So, you can imagine a great artist like Picasso
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turning the sexual energy into his artwork.
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There is displacement.
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Displacement is you have certain shameful thoughts or desires
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and you refocus them more appropriately.
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A boy who's bullied by his father
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may hate his father and want to hurt him
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but since this would--this is very shameful and difficult.
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The boy might instead kick the dog and think he hates the dog
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because that's a more acceptable target.