Stage

• anal stage

  (psychoanalysis) the second sexual and social stage of a child's development during which...

• genital stage

  (psychoanalysis) the fifth sexual and social stage in a person's development occurring...

• latency stage

  (psychoanalysis) the fourth period (from about age 5 or 6 until puberty) during which...

• oral stage

  (psychoanalysis) the first sexual and social stage of an infant's development; the mouth...

• phallic stage

  (psychoanalysis) the third stage in a child's development when awareness of and manipulation...

Libidinal Energy

• libidinal energy

  (psychoanalysis) psychic energy produced by the libido.

• charge

  (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object; "Freud thought...

• acathexis

  (psychoanalysis) a lack of cathexis; a condition in which significant objects or memories...

Personality

• anal personality

  (psychoanalysis) a personality characterized by meticulous neatness and suspicion...

• genital personality

  (psychoanalysis) the mature personality which is not dominated by infantile...

• oral personality

  (psychoanalysis) a personality characterized either by generous optimism or aggressive...

Unconscious Mind

• superego

  (psychoanalysis) that part of the unconscious mind that acts as a conscience.

• id

  (psychoanalysis) primitive instincts and energies underlying all psychic activity.

Principle

• pleasure principle

  (psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the id; the principle that an infant...

• reality principle

  (psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the ego; the principle that as a child...

Also contains

• complex

  (psychoanalysis) a combination of emotions and impulses that have been rejected from awareness...

• transference

  (psychoanalysis) the process whereby emotions are passed on or displaced from one person...

• penis envy

  (psychoanalysis) a female's presumed envy of the male's penis; said to explain femin...

• introjection

  (psychoanalysis) the internalization of the parent figures and their values; leads...

• imago

  (psychoanalysis) an idealized image of someone (usually a parent) formed in childhood.

• latent content

  (psychoanalysis) hidden meaning of a fantasy or dream.

• castration anxiety

  (psychoanalysis) anxiety resulting from real or imagined threats to your sexual...

• condensation

  (psychoanalysis) an unconscious process whereby two ideas or images combine into a...

• ego

  (psychoanalysis) the conscious mind.

• hypnoanalysis

  The use of hypnosis in conjunction with psychoanalysis.

• libido

  (psychoanalysis) a Freudian term for sexual urge or desire.

• anaclisis

  (psychoanalysis) relationship marked by strong dependence on others; especially a libidinal...

• catharsis

  (psychoanalysis) purging of emotional tensions.

• ego ideal

  (psychoanalysis) the part of the ego that contains an ideal of personal excellence toward...

• introject

  (psychoanalysis) parental figures (and their values) that you introjected as a child;...

• psychosexual development

  (psychoanalysis) the process during which personality and sexual behavior...

• death instinct

  (psychoanalysis) an unconscious urge to die.