Glossary of psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis is a set of theories and therapeutic techniques that deal in part with the unconscious mind, and which together form a method of treatment for mental disorders.

A

 * Acathexis
 * Afterwardsness
 * Anal eroticism
 * Anal expulsiveness
 * Anal retentiveness
 * Anticathexis
 * Antinarcissism
 * Aphanisis

B

 * Basic hostility
 * Body cathexis

C

 * Cassandra (metaphor)
 * Catharsis
 * Cathexis
 * Censorship (psychoanalysis)
 * Complex (psychology)
 * Condensation (psychology)
 * Construction (psychoanalysis)
 * Counterphobic attitude

D

 * Death drive
 * Decathexis
 * Decompensation
 * Defence mechanism
 * Deferred obedience
 * Delayed gratification
 * Demand (psychoanalysis)
 * Displacement (psychology)
 * Drive theory

E

 * Electra complex
 * Eros (concept)

F

 * Fixation (psychology)
 * Foreclosure (psychoanalysis)
 * Four discourses
 * Freudian slip

G

 * Gaze
 * Gender inequality
 * Graph of desire

I

 * Id, ego and super-ego
 * Identification (psychology)
 * Identification with the Aggressor
 * The Imaginary (psychoanalysis)
 * Intellectualization
 * Interpellation (philosophy)
 * Introjection
 * Inversive

J

 * Jocasta complex
 * Jointness (psychodynamics)
 * Jouissance

L

 * Lack (psychoanalysis)
 * Laius complex
 * Lapsus
 * Libido
 * Love and hate (psychoanalysis)

M

 * Madonna–whore complex
 * Matheme
 * Medusa complex
 * Mirror stage
 * Mortido

N

 * Name of the Father
 * Narcissistic defences
 * Narcissistic elation
 * Narcissistic injury
 * Narcissistic mortification
 * Narcissistic neurosis
 * Narcissistic personality disorder
 * Narcissistic supply
 * Narcissistic withdrawal
 * Negative transference

O

 * Objet petit a
 * Oceanic feeling
 * Oedipus complex
 * Ophelia complex
 * Organ language
 * Overdetermination

P

 * Pansexuality
 * Parataxic distortion
 * Parataxical Integration
 * Penis envy
 * Phaedra complex
 * Pleasure principle (psychology)
 * Polymorphous perversity
 * Postponement of affect
 * Preconscious
 * Primal scene
 * Projective identification
 * Psychic apparatus
 * Psychical inertia
 * Psychological projection
 * Psychological resistance

R

 * Rationalization (psychology)
 * Reaction formation
 * The Real
 * Regression (psychology)
 * Reparation (psychoanalysis)
 * Repetition compulsion
 * Repressed memory
 * Repression (psychoanalysis)
 * Resistance (psychoanalysis)

S

 * Screen memory
 * Self-envy
 * Signorelli parapraxis
 * Sinthome
 * Sublimation (psychology)
 * Symbolic equation
 * The Symbolic

T

 * Taboo
 * Transference
 * Transference neurosis
 * True self and false self

U

 * Uncanny
 * Unconscious cognition
 * Unconscious mind
 * Undoing (psychology)

V

 * Vanishing mediator