(psychoanalysis) a combination of emotions and impulses that have been rejected from awareness but still influence a person's behavior
Used in the same subject area: Clinical psychology, Psychology, Emotion and tone, Negative emotions.
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Inferiority complex
a sense of personal inferiority arising from conflict between the desire to be noticed and the fear of being humiliated
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a complex of females; sexual attraction to the father
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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To destroy the self-possession of; to confuse or confound, as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority;…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sense, personal, inferiority, arising, conflict.Bewilderment, arising from fear, surprise, or wonder; amazement.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sense, personal, inferiority, arising, conflict.Grief for sin arising only from fear of punishment or feelings of shame. See Contrition.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sense, personal, inferiority, arising, conflict.A person who regards his own faith and views in matters of religion as unquestionably right, and any belief or opinion opposed to or d…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sense, personal, inferiority, arising, conflict.an incompatibility of dates or events; "he noticed a conflict in the dates of the two meetings"
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sense, personal, inferiority, arising, conflict.sorrow for sin arising from fear of damnation
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sense, personal, inferiority, arising, conflict.sorrow for sin arising from fear of damnation
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sense, personal, inferiority, arising, conflict.A strong or inordinate desire of obtaining and possessing some supposed good; excessive desire for riches or money; -- in a bad sense.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sense, personal, inferiority, arising, conflict.Worse state or quality; inferiority.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sense, personal, inferiority, arising, conflict.Goods; movables; personal estate; -- sometimes used to embrace real as well as personal property; as, the people escaped from the town…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sense, personal, inferiority, arising, conflict.property of a personal character that is portable but not used in business; "she left some of her personal effects in the house"; "I w…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sense, personal, inferiority, arising, conflict.A detailed account, in which each thing is specially noticed.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sense, personal, inferiority, arising, conflict.
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