hypercompensation

English

Etymology

From hyper- +‎ compensation.

Noun

hypercompensation (countable and uncountable, plural hypercompensations)

1. Excessive compensation for something.
   • 2008, Vladimir Antonov, Spiritual Work With Children, page 60:

     Manifestations of this “protection” can be various. They are — apathy, lack of interest in the surroundings, defiant behavior (hypercompensation of the inferiority complex), etc.

   • 2011, Andrew Samuels, Psychopathology: Contemporary Jungian Perspectives, page 317:

     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.

Related terms

• hypercompensatory