(psychoanalysis) purging of emotional tensions
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Libidinal energy
(psychoanalysis) psychic energy produced by the libido
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(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
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.
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An apparatus by means of which energy or power can be stored, such as the cylinder or tank for storing water for hydraulic elevators,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychoanalysis, psychic, energy, produced, libido.the energy that an atomic system must acquire before a process (such as an emission or reaction) can occur; "catalysts are said to red…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychoanalysis, psychic, energy, produced, libido.(physics) a theory of atomic structure that combined Rutherford's model with the quantum theory; electrons orbiting a nucleus can only…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychoanalysis, psychic, energy, produced, libido.A unit of energy used to measure food energy
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychoanalysis, psychic, energy, produced, libido.(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, psychic, energy, produced, libido.in all plants and animals: a series of enzymatic reactions in mitochondria involving oxidative metabolism of acetyl compounds to produ…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychoanalysis, psychic, energy, produced, libido.The rate at which palpable energy is dissipated away into other forms of energy.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychoanalysis, psychic, energy, produced, libido.Of or pertaining to dynamics; belonging to energy or power; characterized by energy or production of force.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychoanalysis, psychic, energy, produced, libido.(biochemistry) of a process accompanied by or requiring the absorption of energy; the products of the process are of greater free ener…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychoanalysis, psychic, energy, produced, libido.(physics) a thermodynamic quantity equivalent to the capacity of a physical system to do work; the units of energy are joules or ergs;…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychoanalysis, psychic, energy, produced, libido.a definite stable energy that a physical system can have; used especially of the state of electrons in atoms or molecules; "according…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychoanalysis, psychic, energy, produced, libido.the energy that an atomic system must acquire before a process (such as an emission or reaction) can occur; "catalysts are said to red…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychoanalysis, psychic, energy, produced, libido.
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