Freudians
Id-ego-superego adherents
Freudians are followers or adherents of Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theories—those who interpret human behavior through concepts like the unconscious, repression, and the Oedipus complex.
The term can describe practicing psychoanalysts in the Freudian tradition or anyone who applies Freudian interpretation: The Freudians in the English department read every text through the lens of sexuality and childhood trauma.
Often used with slight skepticism by those outside the tradition.
Not awake or aware
- idUnconscious instinctual drives
- egoOne's self-image
- superegoMind's moral overseer
- libidoInnate erotic drive
eros · defense mechanisms · repression · projection · denial · rationalization · displacement · sublimation
Treatment via unconscious exploration
- Oedipus complexPsychosexual attachment to mother
- psychosexual stagesLibidinal maturation sequence
- oral stageFirst psychosexual developmental period
- anal stageToddler psychosexual development period
castration anxiety · penis envy · dream interpretation · free association · transference · countertransference · fixation · pleasure principle
- Carl JungAnalytical psychology founder
- Wilhelm ReichPsychoanalyst, orgone energy proponent
- Vienna CircleLogical empiricism's founding collective
unconscious
Not awake or aware
libido · eros · defense mechanisms · repression · projection · denial · rationalization · displacement · sublimation · reaction formation
psychoanalysis
Treatment via unconscious exploration
- Oedipus complexPsychosexual attachment to mother
- psychosexual stagesLibidinal maturation sequence
- oral stageFirst psychosexual developmental period
anal stage · castration anxiety · penis envy · dream interpretation · free association · transference · countertransference · fixation · pleasure principle · primal scene
Melanie Klein
- Carl JungAnalytical psychology founder
- Wilhelm ReichPsychoanalyst, orgone energy proponent
- Vienna CircleLogical empiricism's founding collective
- Psychology Schoolsbehaviorists, psychoanalysts, humanists, functionalists, structuralists
- believersbeliever, believers, adherent, devotee, theist
Freudiansbehaviorists
Scientists studying observable conduct
neuroscientists · neuropsychologists · empiricists · materialists
- Freudian slipUnconsciously revealing misstatement
- Freudian analysisTherapy exploring unconscious motivations
- Freudian theoryPsychology of unconscious mind