psychoanalytic
Unconscious mind exploring
Psychoanalytic describes approaches rooted in psychoanalysis—the theory and therapeutic method developed by Sigmund Freud that emphasizes unconscious mental processes, early childhood experiences, and the interpretation of dreams and symbols.
Psychoanalytic theory explores how repressed desires shape behavior.
A psychoanalytic reading of a text probes its hidden meanings and symbolic content.
One who examines systematically
- couchUpholstered seating furniture
- transferenceRedirecting feelings to substitutes
- countertransferenceTherapist's emotional response to patient
- resistanceCapacity to withstand force
interpretation · neutrality · abstinence · frame · termination · insight · abreaction · catharsis
Founder of psychoanalysis
- idUnconscious instinctual drives
- egoOne's self-image
- superegoMind's moral overseer
- libidoInnate erotic drive
Oedipus complex · psychosexual · oral stage · anal stage · Eros · pleasure principle · castration anxiety · penis envy
Founder of psychoanalysis
- idUnconscious instinctual drives
- egoOne's self-image
- superegoMind's moral overseer
- libidoInnate erotic drive
psychosexual · latency · Eros · Lacan
Unconscious blocking of thoughts
- unconscious mindMental processes beneath awareness
- defense mechanismsUnconscious strategies avoiding distress
- projectionSomething that extends outward
- displacementRemoval from usual location
sublimation · denial · rationalization · reaction formation · regression · suppression · resistance · preconscious
Unconscious blocking of thoughts
- denialRefusal to accept reality
- projectionSomething that extends outward
- rationalizationInventing acceptable motives afterward
- sublimationSolid to gas directly
displacement · regression · reaction-formation · intellectualization · isolation · undoing · introjection · identification
Analyzing sleep-state imagery
- dream symbolsMeaningful elements in dreams
- interpretationAssigned meaning
- anxiety dreamsDistressing sleep visions from stress
- royal roadEffortless path to success
Founder of psychoanalysis
Functional mental disorder
- psychosisSevere reality detachment
- hysteriaUncontrollable emotional excess
- phobiaPersistent irrational dread
- melancholiaProfound, enduring sorrow
narcissism · borderline · fixation · complex · ambivalence · conflict · perversion
analyst
One who examines systematically
- couchUpholstered seating furniture
- transferenceRedirecting feelings to substitutes
- countertransferenceTherapist's emotional response to patient
resistance · interpretation · neutrality · abstinence · frame · termination · insight · abreaction · catharsis · session
Freud
Founder of psychoanalysis
libido · Oedipus complex · psychosexual · oral stage · anal stage · Eros · pleasure principle · castration anxiety · penis envy · primal scene
Freud
Founder of psychoanalysis
libido · psychosexual · latency · Eros · Lacan
repression
Unconscious blocking of thoughts
- unconscious mindMental processes beneath awareness
- defense mechanismsUnconscious strategies avoiding distress
- projectionSomething that extends outward
displacement · sublimation · denial · rationalization · reaction formation · regression · suppression · resistance · preconscious · condensation
repression
Unconscious blocking of thoughts
- denialRefusal to accept reality
- projectionSomething that extends outward
- rationalizationInventing acceptable motives afterward
sublimation · displacement · regression · reaction-formation · intellectualization · isolation · undoing · introjection · identification · splitting
dreamwork
Analyzing sleep-state imagery
- dream symbolsMeaningful elements in dreams
- interpretationAssigned meaning
- anxiety dreamsDistressing sleep visions from stress
royal road · free association · nightmares · symbolic meaning
Freud
Founder of psychoanalysis
neurosis
Functional mental disorder
- psychosisSevere reality detachment
- hysteriaUncontrollable emotional excess
- phobiaPersistent irrational dread
melancholia · narcissism · borderline · fixation · complex · ambivalence · conflict · perversion
- criticism typesconstructive, destructive, literary, art criticism, film criticism
- philosophical termsSocratic, Kantian, Cartesian, Aristotelian, dialectical
psychoanalyticbehavioral
Relating to conduct
cognitive-behavioral · behaviorist · cognitive · CBT · exposure therapy
psychoanalyticbehaviorist
Action-focused psychology adherent
behavioral · cognitive · neurobiological · computational · neuroscientific
psychoanalyticempirical
Based on observation, not theory
experimental · evidence-based · quantitative · positivist · scientific
- psychoanalytic therapyTreatment exploring unconscious motivations