Displacement is a defense mechanism where emotions are redirected from the original source to a safer target.

“displacement is what comes out of us or what what we're our attribution can shift right it's it's not this person who's making me angry it's that person because that's a safer person right to to to be angry at right or if I'm then going to take out my anger right instead of metaphorically kicking the person who might who might respond to me in a way I don't want maybe I kick the dog that's helpless to respond back right so that's displacement”