Ben's Wife Rebecca Is a Field Biologist Who Accepted a Post

Ben's wife Rebecca is a field biologist who accepted a post at a remote research station in Antarctica and has been gone for over two months. Since Rebecca's departure, Ben has remodeled the kitchen, planted a vegetable garden, and is now hard at work building a new deck. Freud would probably describe Ben's burst of creative and productive activities as an example of:

A) rationalization.
B) sublimation.
C) projection.
D) reaction formation.