Concepts in psychoanalysis (original) (raw)
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Psychoanalysis is a discipline in which there are many difficult and often-misunderstood concepts. Here are some straightforward explanations of many of them.
- Abjection: a state of deep and sickening horror.
- The Chora: the initial chaotic state in a child's life.
- Counter-transference: is the effect thattransference has on a person.
- The Depressive Position: where good and bad are realized as one.
- Desire: a component of loss and lack.
- Good Object, Bad Object: separating the comforting from the unpleasant.
- The Good-Enough Mother: who supports healthy development.
- Identification: seeking to join with others.
- Incorporation: primitive taking into the body.
- Internalization: installation of objects in the ego.
- Introjective Identification: taking another's good objects.
- Jouissance: pleasure too great to bear.
- Life and Death Drives: Eros and Thanatos.
- Mirror Phase: image, self and misrecognition.
- Narcissism: exclusive self-love.
- The Neonatal Phase: early undifferentiated unity.
- Object: something to which a Subject relates.
- Object Relations Theory: relationships between people and their objects.
- Oedipus Complex: mother, son, father, complications.
- The Other: Who is not the subject and so creates the subject.
- The Paranoid-Schizoid Position: paranoid fear and projecting bad objects.
- Phallus: A symbol of male power and female lack.
- Phantasy vs. Fantasy: unconscious vs. conscious imaginings.
- Play: development and imagining.
- Pleasure-Pain Principle: seeking immediate gratification, avoiding discomfort.
- Projection and Introjection: taking in and pushing out objects.
- Projective Identification: expelling a bad object into another person.
- Reality Principle: Pragmatic deferral of pleasure.
- Splitting: separating one item into two so they can be handled separately.
- The Symbolic Register: stage of acquiring language and symbols.
- Three Registers of Human Reality: real, imaginary, symbolic.
- Transference: projecting one person's character onto another person.
- The Transition Object: not-me and carer-substitute that helps transition.
- True Self, False Self: healthy and not.