Denial (Freud)
REJECTING A FACT DESPITE THE OVERWHELMING EVIDENCE OF ITS TRUTH BASED ON FEAR OF ITS OUTCOME
Disavowal (psychoanalysis); Disavowal
Denial or abnegation () is a psychological defense mechanism postulated by psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, in which a person is faced with a fact that is too uncomfortable to accept and rejects it instead, insisting that it is not true despite what may be overwhelming evidence.Freud, Sigmund (1925).