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[[Substitute]]/Substitutive [[Formation]]"Substitute" or "[[substitutive ]] formation" refers to the [[psyche]]'s replacement of a fact or [[mental ]] [[object ]] through [[unconscious ]] chains of [[association]]. In the [[substitution]], an [[idea]], [[thought]], or object perceived as incompatible with the ego is [[repressed ]] and exchanged for [[another]]. A [[number ]] of synonyms are found in Sigmund [[Freud]]'s writings: "ersatz," "[[substitutive formation]]," "equivalent," "stand-in," and "replacement."In "The Neuro-[[Psychoses ]] of [[Defence]]" (1894a), Freud described the formation of an [[obsessional ]] idea as a substitute for an...

The [[name ]] "[[substitute formation]]" has been applied to the defensive [[process ]] by which a symptom—but also, more generally, a failed act, [[slip ]] of the tongue, or drea—is produced. The result of this process—for example, the act or [[manifest ]] [[text ]] of a dream—is that [[desire ]] can find a way out, and its [[economic ]] charge find an outlet.The [[notion ]] of substitute formation appeared in Freud in 1895, in his article on [[anxiety ]] [[neurosis ]] (1895b), but it was anticipated in the previous year in his [[work ]] on "The Neuro-Psychoses of [[Defense]]" (1894a). In...