Freud
Viennese dream analyst
Freud refers to Sigmund Freud (1856–1939), the Austrian neurologist who founded psychoanalysis.
His theories about the unconscious mind, dreams, and sexuality shaped 20th-century thought.
To invoke Freud is often to suggest hidden psychological motives: Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, Freud supposedly said.
A Freudian slip is an error revealing unconscious desires.
Not awake or aware
- idUnconscious instinctual drives
- superegoMind's moral overseer
- egoOne's self-image
- libidoInnate erotic drive
repression · defense mechanisms · transference · countertransference · free association · interpretation · neurosis · psychodynamics
Unconscious instinctual drives
- egoOne's self-image
- superegoMind's moral overseer
- consciousMentally present and alert
- unconsciousNot awake or aware
preconscious · libido · psychic energy · instincts · drives · eros · death instinct · pleasure principle
Treatment via unconscious exploration
- transferenceRedirecting feelings to substitutes
- countertransferenceTherapist's emotional response to patient
- resistanceCapacity to withstand force
- free associationUnfiltered verbal thought flow
catharsis · abreaction · analyst · couch · talking cure · interpretation · working through · termination
Innate erotic drive
- Oedipus complexPsychosexual attachment to mother
- psychosexualRelating to mental-erotic development
- oral stageFirst psychosexual developmental period
- anal stageToddler psychosexual development period
latency · castration anxiety · penis envy · Electra complex · fixation · eros · pleasure principle · erogenous zones
Not awake or aware
- dream interpretationAnalyzing nocturnal vision symbolism
- symbolismRepresenting concepts through images
- condensationVapor turning to liquid
- displacementRemoval from usual location
royal road · nightmare · sleep · preconscious · censorship · dream symbols
Failing to retain memories
- misspeakingErring in speech
- lapseBrief failure or expiration
- errorFault in communication
- word substitutionExchanging terms in text
unconscious
Not awake or aware
libido · repression · defense mechanisms · transference · countertransference · free association · interpretation · neurosis · psychodynamics · resistance
id
Unconscious instinctual drives
unconscious · preconscious · libido · psychic energy · instincts · drives · eros · death instinct · pleasure principle
psychoanalysis
Treatment via unconscious exploration
- transferenceRedirecting feelings to substitutes
- countertransferenceTherapist's emotional response to patient
- resistanceCapacity to withstand force
free association · catharsis · abreaction · analyst · couch · talking cure · interpretation · working through · termination · hysteria
libido
Innate erotic drive
- Oedipus complexPsychosexual attachment to mother
- psychosexualRelating to mental-erotic development
- oral stageFirst psychosexual developmental period
anal stage · latency · castration anxiety · penis envy · Electra complex · fixation · eros · pleasure principle · erogenous zones · incest taboo
unconscious
Not awake or aware
- dream interpretationAnalyzing nocturnal vision symbolism
- symbolismRepresenting concepts through images
- condensationVapor turning to liquid
displacement · royal road · nightmare · sleep · preconscious · censorship · dream symbols
forgetting
Failing to retain memories
- misspeakingErring in speech
- lapseBrief failure or expiration
- errorFault in communication
- GermanGermany, Austria, Switzerland, German, Berlin
- 1800s FiguresDarwin, Marx, Dickens, Beethoven, Napoleon
- psychoanalysisid, ego, unconscious, superego, repression
- Psychology HistoryCarl Jung, Jung, William James, James, B.F. Skinner
- Austrian ThinkersWittgenstein, Popper, Godel, Steiner, Reich
- PsychologistsJung, Piaget, Skinner, Maslow, Pavlov
FreudB.F. Skinner
Behaviorist psychologist, conditioning researcher
John Watson · behaviorism · Ivan Pavlov · cognitive-behavioral therapy · neuroscience
- Freudian slipUnconsciously revealing misstatement
- Sigmund Freud
- Freudian analysisTherapy exploring unconscious motivations
- Freudian theoryPsychology of unconscious mind