(psychoanalysis) a combination of emotions and impulses that have been rejected from awareness but still influence a person's behavior
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(psychoanalysis) a Freudian term for sexual urge or desire
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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.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.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: psychoanalysis, freudian, sexual, urge, desire.The faculty supposed to influence sexual desire; propensity to love.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychoanalysis, freudian, sexual, urge, desire.To be in heat; to manifest sexual desire as cows do.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychoanalysis, freudian, sexual, urge, desire.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: psychoanalysis, freudian, sexual, urge, desire.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: psychoanalysis, freudian, sexual, urge, desire.To urge, impel, or hurry forward; to force; to constrain; to urge, press, or bring to a point or state; as, to drive a person by neces…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychoanalysis, freudian, sexual, urge, desire.Pertaining to sexual desire; sensual.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychoanalysis, freudian, sexual, urge, desire.To incite by words or advice; to animate or urge by arguments, as to a good deed or laudable conduct; to address exhortation to; to ur…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychoanalysis, freudian, sexual, urge, desire.To exert to the utmost; to urge; hence, to strain; to urge to excessive, unnatural, or untimely action; to produce by unnatural effort…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychoanalysis, freudian, sexual, urge, desire.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: psychoanalysis, freudian, sexual, urge, desire.That form of alternate generation in which two kinds of sexual generation, or a sexual and a parthenogenetic generation, alternate; --…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychoanalysis, freudian, sexual, urge, desire.a strong restless desire; "why this urge to travel?"
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