Externalization

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In Freudian psychology, externalization is an unconscious defense mechanism by which an individual projects their own internal characteristics onto the outside world. It may refer to:
- Externalization (migration), efforts by countries to prevent migrants reaching their borders
- Externalization (psychology)
- External memory (psychology)
- Cost externalization, the socioeconomic practice of maximizing profits by off-loading indirect costs and forcing negative effects to a third party
- Sound externalization, see virtual acoustic space
- Externalization in economics