Marcus is considering having an affair with an attractive woman who works at his office who has been flirting with him. He does not want his wife to know of his interest in having sex with another woman, and one evening he begins accusing his wife of flirting with other men. "Why do you always make eyes at other guys? Are you cheating on me?" he asks. Marcus is using a defense mechanism called

a. Displacement
b. Regression
c. Projection
d. Sublimation
e. Denial


c. Projection

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