pseudoactive

alternative pseudo-active

1. not comparableApparently, but not truly, active.

   […] our inadequate agency and our passivity may narcissistically ensnare us into believing that we are indeed in charge of the whole complex of events and thus determine a pseudoactive sense of futile activity.

   2009, Gemma Corradi Fiumara, Spontaneity: A Psychoanalytic Inquiry, page 63

   1 more example

   […] to avoid awareness of ideas and feelings associated with the stressful event, to compensate for an immature level of ego development, and to continue a pseudoactive but actually passive-dependent life trajectory.

   1997, Mardi Jon Horowitz, Stress response syndromes: PTSD, grief, and adjustment disorders