Vito is angry when the school bus driver blames him for misbehaving, when it actually was the child behind him who had been acting up

As he gets off the bus, he kicks the bus tire. Freud would say that Vito is unconsciously using the defense mechanism of ________
a. displacement.
b. repression.
c. projection.
d. denial.

Answer: a

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