EXTERNALIZATION • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Externalization

... of war may incite to war, but they may also satisfy the desire and need of war. There is a certain narcissism in nations, and this is due precisely to the fact that patriotism as a feeling and impulse necessarily lacks in the group consciousness the mechanisms for externalization, except indeed in war. War is an escape, for a people, from a kind of subjectivism, from the evils of a self-love to perhaps the greater ...

— The Psychology of Nations - A Contribution to the Philosophy of History • G.E. Partridge