Glossary of 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.

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

• Gaze
• Gender inequality
• Graph of desire

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

• Madonna–whore complex
• Matheme
• Medusa complex
• Mirror stage
• Mortido

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

• Objet petit a
• Oceanic feeling
• Oedipus complex
• Ophelia complex
• Organ language
• Overdetermination

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

• Taboo
• Transference
• Transference neurosis
• True self and false self

U

• Uncanny
• Unconscious cognition
• Unconscious mind
• Undoing (psychology)

V

• Vanishing mediator

See also

• Glossary of psychiatry