The process of 'invalidating'

[Night Owl]

I had many strong experiences of what you describe as rejection reaction and I totally relate with Ra's description of mental/emotional distortion of the deeper self due to non-acceptance of the environement. A useful way to uncover the whys of such rejection would be to try and uncover the love for something that creates it. Because love is at the root everything else it is more than likely that a situation where the love for something has been rejected has distorted the self into projecting that rejection to something else.