Psychoanalysis

Attachment theory is a psychological model that attempts to describe the dynamics of long-term and short-term interpersonal relationships between humans.

In psychoanalysis, cathexis is defined as the process of investment of mental or emotional energy in a person, object, or idea.

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The International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA) is an association including 12,000 psychoanalysts as members and works with 70 constituent organizations.

An inferiority complex is a lack of self-worth, a doubt and uncertainty, and feelings of not measuring up to standards.

Foot fetishism, foot partialism, foot worship, or podophilia is a pronounced sexual interest in feet.

Insight is the understanding of a specific cause and effect in a specific context.

Neurosis is a class of functional mental disorders involving distress but neither delusions nor hallucinations.

Libido (/lᵻˈbiːdoʊ/), colloquially known as sex drive, is a person's overall sexual drive or desire for sexual activity.

A nightmare, also called a bad dream, is an unpleasant dream that can cause a strong emotional response from the mind, typically fear but also despair, anxiety and great sadness.

The psychology of art is an interdisciplinary field that studies the perception, cognition and characteristics of art and its production.

In psychology, the psyche /ˈsaɪki/ is the totality of the human mind, conscious and unconscious.

The International Journal of Psychoanalysis is an academic journal in the field of psychoanalytic psychology.

The Interpretation of Dreams (German: Die Traumdeutung) is an 1899 book by psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, in which Freud introduces his theory of the unconscious with respect to dream interpretation, and discusses what would later become the theory of the Oedipus complex.

In classical Freudian psychoanalytic theory, the death drive (German: Todestrieb) is the drive towards death and self-destruction.

Body image is a person's perception of the aesthetics or sexual attractiveness of their own body.

Victor Ovcharenko (Russian: Ви́ктор Ива́нович Овчаре́нко; February 5, 1943 – May 5, 2009) was a Russian philosopher, sociologist, historian and psychologist.

The principle of individuation, or principium individuationis, describes the manner in which a thing is identified as distinguished from other things.

Attachment theory, originating in the work of John Bowlby, is a psychological, evolutionary and ethological theory that provides a descriptive and explanatory framework for understanding interpersonal relationships between human beings.

Barbara Johnson (October 4, 1947 – August 27, 2009) was an American literary critic and translator, born in Boston.

Ranjana Khanna is a literary critic and theorist recognized for her interdisciplinary, feminist and internationalist contributions to the fields of post-colonial studies, feminist theory, literature and political philosophy.

David Maldavsky is a doctor in Philosophy and Arts.

The term maternal deprivation is a catch-phrase summarising the early work of psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, John Bowlby on the effects of separating infants and young children from their mother (or mother substitute) although the effect of loss of the mother on the developing child had been considered earlier by Freud and other theorists.

Mourning and Melancholia (German: Trauer und Melancholie) is a work of Sigmund Freud from the year 1917.

John Steiner is a psychoanalyst, author and trainer at the British Psychoanalytical Society.

The Question of Lay Analysis (German: Die Frage der Laienanalyse) is a 1926 book by Sigmund Freud advocating the right of non-doctors, or 'lay' people, to be psychoanalysts.

Attachment in children is "a biological instinct in which proximity to an attachment figure is sought when the child senses or perceives threat or discomfort.

The unconscious mind (or the unconscious) consists of the processes in the mind which occur automatically and are not available to introspection, and include thought processes, memories, interests, and motivations.

Masculine psychology may refer to the gender-related psychology of male human identity.

Henri Frédéric Ellenberger (Nalolo, Barotseland, Rhodesia, 6 November 1905 – Quebec, 1 May 1993) was a Canadian psychiatrist, medical historian, and criminologist, sometimes considered the founding historiographer of psychiatry.

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