Glossary of psychoanalysis
# 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.

## Contents

* A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
* References

## 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
