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All this might sound a little like what Anna Freud called intellectualization, a cardinal defense mechanism, and I’m OK with that.

From Slate • Mar. 17, 2020

Based on "my" own experiences, intellectualization is itself emergent from more primitive conscious states that can only be comprehended intellectually after-the-fact.

From New York Times • Dec. 29, 2016

Brzezinski’s work transcends intellectualization or interpretation, and this kind of art often flummoxes critics.

From Washington Post

This time the scene is set in a shadowy country not unlike a New England intellectualization of Hell.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus the growing process of intellectualization and rationalization does not imply a growing understanding of the conditions under which we live.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton