Is there a name for this psychological quirk?

The caracteristic of some people of expressing the thing they deny about themselves far more vividly and accurately than the denial. Also, when they talk in hypothetical terms, 'If this were true, that would make me a ...' when what follows is a damningly precise description of themselves.
An obvious example is Richard Nixon: 'I treat people like human beings, not like the dirt under my feet,' etc.

Answer:
its called 'projective identification' or 'transference'.
its called being crazy
Hypocrisy!
Projection.
its called denial!
madness
Perhaps they in the process out of the closet or whatever manifest their predicament in describing 'the bad' as the subconscious are happy just to 'land it on the table' rather than letting this-often powerful and important part of them self- get locked into dead deny??
By letting the concept at all be around the possibility is he/she gets used to it and suddenly it inverts and -poff-
there's your whatever.
But a name?
No. Not to my knowledge!

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