Harry Stack Sullivan claimed that personality was more a reflection seen in response to significant others than something one possessed. He suggested three modes of cognitive experience. One of those, parataxic distortion, was similar to another psychologist's idea about anxiety in interpersonal dynamics. Which psychologist and idea is that?
A)Freud's notion of transference
B)Jung's notion of creative illness
C)Adler's idea of emotive behavior
D)Horney's definition of basic anxiety

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Sullivan's notion of parataxic distortion, which he defined as the inclination to skew perceptions of others based on fantasy, is similar to Freud's notion of transference. Transference implies unconscious redirection of feelings onto a person unrelated to the root of those feelings.

Harry Stack Sullivan Claimed That Personality Was More a Reflection