# Externalization

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'''Externalization''' may refer to:

* [Externalization (migration)](/source/Externalization_(migration)), efforts by countries to prevent migrants reaching their borders
* [Externalization (psychology)](/source/Externalization_(psychology)), Freudian psychology, an unconscious defense mechanism by which an individual projects their own internal characteristics onto the outside world. 
** [External memory (psychology)](/source/External_memory_(psychology))
* [Cost externalization](/source/Cost_externalization), the socioeconomic practice of maximizing profits by off-loading indirect costs and forcing negative effects or ''externalities'' to a third party
* [Sound externalization](/source/Sound_externalization), see [virtual acoustic space](/source/virtual_acoustic_space)

==See also==
*[External (disambiguation)](/source/External_(disambiguation))
*[Externalizing disorder](/source/Externalizing_disorder)
*[Internalization (disambiguation)](/source/Internalization_(disambiguation))

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