The purpose of this article is to study the manifestations of emotional outsiderism as a form of its defense mechanism in a future translator in translation. In this connection, a review of current theories on the subject of its defense mechanisms is carried out. Since 1972, Savenko, Freud, Horney, Blum, Plutchik and several other scientists have postulated the dependence of the level of adaptation on the constellation of the defense mechanisms of the personality. The article analyzes the factors determining the set of defenses, including innate temperament; the nature of the stress of the early period of childhood, patterns of defenses of significant figures, learned defenses due to personal experience of repeated defense mechanisms. The dependence of the pattern of defenses with the need to cope with emotions are under study. Plutchik and several other scholars of structural theory of defense mechanisms state that eight defense mechanisms control such emotions as fear, anger, joy, sadness, acceptance, rejection, expectation, surprise. In the framework of this theory, we conducted a diagnostic study based on the questionnaire by R. Plutchik, G. Kellerman and H. Comte in order to identify the mechanisms of Ego defenses. Taking into account the Ego defense mechanisms, the translation material of the future translators is analyzed in terms of emotional content distortion. At the same time, the level of alexithymia among students was diagnosed and analyzed in terms of how it is reflected in the translation. The analysis was carried out both by the language criterion for using certain parts of speech, such as adjectives and adverbs, and by the speech criterion, that is, the ability to use active imagination to create an image. Coping with the mechanisms of Ego defenses is considered via professional translator portfolio.