(psychoanalysis) a combination of emotions and impulses that have been rejected from awareness but still influence a person's behavior
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Electra complex
a complex of females; sexual attraction to the father
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a sense of personal inferiority arising from conflict between the desire to be noticed and the fear of being humiliated
Used in the same subject area: Clinical psychology, Psychology, Emotion and tone, Negative emotions.(psychoanalysis) a Freudian term for sexual urge or desire
Used in the same subject area: Clinical psychology, Psychology, Emotion and tone, Negative emotions.a complex of males; desire to possess the mother sexually and to exclude the father; said to be a source of personality disorders if u…
Used in the same subject area: Clinical psychology, Psychology, Emotion and tone, Negative emotions.a complex of males; desire to possess the mother sexually and to exclude the father; said to be a source of personality disorders if u…
Used in the same subject area: Clinical psychology, Psychology, Emotion and tone, Negative emotions.(psychoanalysis) a female's presumed envy of the male's penis; said to explain femininity
Used in the same subject area: Clinical psychology, Psychology, Emotion and tone, Negative emotions.(psychoanalysis) purging of emotional tensions
Used in the same subject area: Clinical psychology, Psychology.(psychoanalysis) a lack of cathexis; a condition in which significant objects or memories arouse no emotion in an individual
Used in the same subject area: Clinical psychology, Psychology.(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
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The unfaithfulness of a married person to the marriage bed; sexual intercourse by a married man with another than his wife, or volunta…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: complex, females, sexual, attraction, father.That attraction which takes place, at an insensible distance, between the heterogeneous particles of bodies, and unites them to form c…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: complex, females, sexual, attraction, father.the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride's father’
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: complex, females, sexual, attraction, father.One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a fore father.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: complex, females, sexual, attraction, father.To procreate, as a father or sire; to generate; -- commonly said of the father.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: complex, females, sexual, attraction, father.The restraint which a person imposes upon his desires and passions; the act or power of refraining from indulgence of the sexual appet…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: complex, females, sexual, attraction, father.Abstaining from sexual intercourse; exercising restraint upon the sexual appetite; esp., abstaining from illicit sexual intercourse; c…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: complex, females, sexual, attraction, father.A power in nature, a manifestation of energy, exhibiting itself when in disturbed equilibrium or in activity by a circuit movement, th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: complex, females, sexual, attraction, father.The state of being a father; the character or authority of a father; paternity.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: complex, females, sexual, attraction, father.Unlawful sexual intercourse on the part of an unmarried person; the act of such illicit sexual intercourse between a man and a woman a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: complex, females, sexual, attraction, father.A father's or mother's father; an ancestor in the next degree above the father or mother in lineal ascent.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: complex, females, sexual, attraction, father.That species of attraction or force by which all bodies or particles of matter in the universe tend toward each other; called also att…
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