(psychoanalysis) a combination of emotions and impulses that have been rejected from awareness but still influence a person's behavior
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Oedipal complex
a complex of males; desire to possess the mother sexually and to exclude the father; said to be a source of personality disorders if unresolved
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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.(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.(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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One born in Africa, the offspring of a white father and a "colored" mother. Also, and now commonly in Southern Africa, a native born o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: complex, males, desire, possess, mother.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, males, desire, possess, mother.a personality disorder characterized by amorality and lack of affect; capable of violent acts without guilt feelings (‘psychopathic pe…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: complex, males, desire, possess, mother.To procreate, as a father or sire; to generate; -- commonly said of the father.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: complex, males, desire, possess, mother.congenital tendency to uncontrolled bleeding; usually affects males and is transmitted from mother to son
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: complex, males, desire, possess, mother.A brother by both the father's and mother's side, in contradistinction to a uterine brother, one by the mother only.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: complex, males, desire, possess, mother.A diligent seeking or search; manifested want; desire to possess; request; as, a demand for certain goods; a person's company is in gr…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: complex, males, desire, possess, mother.Worthy of desire or longing; fitted to excite desire or a wish to possess; pleasing; agreeable.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: complex, males, desire, possess, mother.Chagrin, mortification, discontent, or uneasiness at the sight of another's excellence or good fortune, accompanied with some degree o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: complex, males, desire, possess, mother.To shut out; to hinder from entrance or admission; to debar from participation or enjoyment; to deprive of; to except; -- the opposite…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: complex, males, desire, possess, mother.Able to exclude; excluding; serving to exclude.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: complex, males, desire, possess, mother.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, males, desire, possess, mother.
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