(psychoanalysis) purging of emotional tensions
Used in the same subject area: Clinical psychology, Psychology.
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(psychoanalysis) a lack of cathexis; a condition in which significant objects or memories arouse no emotion in an individual
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(psychoanalysis) relationship marked by strong dependence on others; especially a libidinal attachment to e.g. a parental figure
Used in the same subject area: Clinical psychology, Psychology.(psychoanalysis) a personality characterized by meticulous neatness and suspicion and reserve; said to be formed in early childhood by…
Used in the same subject area: Clinical psychology, Psychology.(psychoanalysis) the second sexual and social stage of a child's development during which bowel control is learned
Used in the same subject area: Clinical psychology, Psychology.(psychoanalysis) a personality characterized by meticulous neatness and suspicion and reserve; said to be formed in early childhood by…
Used in the same subject area: Clinical psychology, Psychology.(psychoanalysis) the second sexual and social stage of a child's development during which bowel control is learned
Used in the same subject area: Clinical psychology, Psychology.(Jungian psychology) the inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious
Used in the same subject area: Clinical psychology, Psychology.(psychoanalysis) anxiety resulting from real or imagined threats to your sexual functions; originally applied only to men but can in p…
Used in the same subject area: Clinical psychology, Psychology.(psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object; "Freud thought of cathexis as a psychic analog of an…
Used in the same subject area: Clinical psychology, Psychology.(psychoanalysis) an unconscious urge to die
Used in the same subject area: Clinical psychology, Psychology.(psychoanalysis) an unconscious urge to die
Used in the same subject area: Clinical psychology, Psychology.(psychoanalysis) the part of the ego that contains an ideal of personal excellence toward which a person strives
Used in the same subject area: Clinical psychology, Psychology.(psychoanalysis) the mature personality which is not dominated by infantile pleasure drives
Used in the same subject area: Clinical psychology, Psychology.(psychoanalysis) the fifth sexual and social stage in a person's development occurring during adolescence; interest focuses on sexual…
Used in the same subject area: Clinical psychology, Psychology.(psychoanalysis) the fifth sexual and social stage in a person's development occurring during adolescence; interest focuses on sexual…
Used in the same subject area: Clinical psychology, Psychology.(psychoanalysis) primitive instincts and energies underlying all psychic activity
Used in the same subject area: Clinical psychology, Psychology.(psychoanalysis) parental figures (and their values) that you introjected as a child; the voice of conscience is usually a parent's vo…
Used in the same subject area: Clinical psychology, Psychology.(psychoanalysis) the internalization of the parent figures and their values; leads to the formation of the superego
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To awake; to arouse; to stir or start up; also, to shout out.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychoanalysis, lack, cathexis, condition, significant.To excite to action from a state of rest; to stir, or put in motion or exertion; to rouse; to excite; as, to arouse one from sleep; to…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychoanalysis, lack, cathexis, condition, significant.The physiological individual, characterized by definiteness and independence of function, in distinction from the morphological indivi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychoanalysis, lack, cathexis, condition, significant.To have a condition, quality, appearance, sensation, or emotion, as if on fire or excessively heated; to act or rage with destructive…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychoanalysis, lack, cathexis, condition, significant.(psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object; "Freud thought of cathexis as a psychic analog of an…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychoanalysis, lack, cathexis, condition, significant.(computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded by semicondu…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychoanalysis, lack, cathexis, condition, significant.(computer science) a computer memory consisting of an array of magnetic cores; now superseded by semiconductor memories
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychoanalysis, lack, cathexis, condition, significant.Scarcity which renders dear; want; lack; specifically, lack of food on account of failure of crops; famine.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychoanalysis, lack, cathexis, condition, significant.memories that can be consciously recalled such as facts and knowledge.; "The fact that medial temporal lobe structures, including the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychoanalysis, lack, cathexis, condition, significant.the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychoanalysis, lack, cathexis, condition, significant.Having the sexes in two separate individuals; -- applied to plants in which the female flowers occur on one individual and the male fl…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychoanalysis, lack, cathexis, condition, significant.The state of being beside one's self or rapt out of one's self; a state in which the mind is elevated above the reach of ordinary impr…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychoanalysis, lack, cathexis, condition, significant.
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