(psychoanalysis) purging of emotional tensions
Used in the same subject area: Clinical psychology, Psychology.
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(psychoanalysis) the first sexual and social stage of an infant's development; the mouth is the focus of the libido and satisfaction comes from suckling and chewing and biting
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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…
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The convergence to different foci, by a lens or mirror, of rays of light emanating from one and the same point, or the deviation of su…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychoanalysis, first, sexual, social, stage.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, first, sexual, social, stage.The basinlike opening or mouth of a volcano, through which the chief eruption comes; similarly, the mouth of a geyser, about which a c…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychoanalysis, first, sexual, social, stage.The science which relates to the formation and development of the embryo in animals and plants; a study of the gradual development of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychoanalysis, first, sexual, social, stage.A stage in the development of discophorous medusae, when they first begin to swim about after being detached from the strobila. See St…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychoanalysis, first, sexual, social, stage.To bring to a focus; to focus; to concentrate.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychoanalysis, first, sexual, social, stage.To bring to a focus; to focalize; as, to focus a camera.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychoanalysis, first, sexual, social, stage.An embryonic form having its origin in the invagination or pushing in of the wall of the planula or blastula (the blastosphere) on one…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychoanalysis, first, sexual, social, stage.A sale, gift, or delivery into the hand of another; especially, a sale, gift, delivery, or using which is the first of a series, and r…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychoanalysis, first, sexual, social, stage.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, first, sexual, social, stage.The figure or picture of any object formed at the focus of a lens or mirror, by rays of light from the several points of the object sy…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychoanalysis, first, sexual, social, stage.Of or pertaining to infancy, or to an infant; similar to, or characteristic of, an infant; childish; as, infantile behavior.
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