Jung sounds a tone that resonates

"certain neurotic and
especially mentally diseased people continually defend
their innocence against non-existent attacks;

at a closer examination, the patient, while
he apparently defends his innocence without reason,

fulfils
with that a “Deckhandlung,” the energy for which arises
from just those impulses,

whose sinful character is revealed

by the contents of the pretended reproach and
calumny."

Psychology of the Unconscious