Glossary of psychoanalysis
List of definitions of terms and concepts commonly used in psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis is a set of theories and therapeutic techniques that deal in part with the unconscious mind, and which together form a method of treatment for mental disorders.
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A
- Acathexis
- Afterwardsness
- Anal eroticism
- Anal expulsiveness
- Anal retentiveness
- Anticathexis
- Antinarcissism
- Aphanisis
B
- Basic hostility
- Body cathexis
C
- Cassandra (metaphor)
- Catharsis
- Cathexis
- Censorship (psychoanalysis)
- Complex (psychology)
- Condensation (psychology)
- Construction (psychoanalysis)
- Counterphobic attitude
D
- Death drive
- Decathexis
- Decompensation
- Defence mechanism
- Deferred obedience
- Delayed gratification
- Demand (psychoanalysis)
- Displacement (psychology)
- Drive theory
E
- Electra complex
- Eros (concept)
F
- Fixation (psychology)
- Foreclosure (psychoanalysis)
- Four discourses
- Freudian slip
G
I
- Id, ego and super-ego
- Identification (psychology)
- Identification with the Aggressor
- The Imaginary (psychoanalysis)
- Intellectualization
- Interpellation (philosophy)
- Introjection
- Inversive
J
- Jocasta complex
- Jointness (psychodynamics)
- Jouissance
L
- Lack (psychoanalysis)
- Laius complex
- Lapsus
- Libido
- Love and hate (psychoanalysis)
M
N
- Name of the Father
- Narcissistic defences
- Narcissistic elation
- Narcissistic injury
- Narcissistic mortification
- Narcissistic neurosis
- Narcissistic personality disorder
- Narcissistic supply
- Narcissistic withdrawal
- Negative transference
O
P
- Pansexuality
- Parataxic distortion
- Parataxical Integration
- Penis envy
- Phaedra complex
- Pleasure principle (psychology)
- Polymorphous perversity
- Postponement of affect
- Preconscious
- Primal scene
- Projective identification
- Psychic apparatus
- Psychical inertia
- Psychological projection
- Psychological resistance
R
- Rationalization (psychology)
- Reaction formation
- The Real
- Regression (psychology)
- Reparation (psychoanalysis)
- Repetition compulsion
- Repressed memory
- Repression (psychoanalysis)
- Resistance (psychoanalysis)
S
- Screen memory
- Self-envy
- Signorelli parapraxis
- Sinthome
- Sublimation (psychology)
- Symbolic equation
- The Symbolic
T
U
- Uncanny
- Unconscious cognition
- Unconscious mind
- Undoing (psychology)
