Psychoanalytic

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Repression

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The forgetting or ignoring of unresolved conflicts, unadmitted desires or traumatic past events so that they are forced out of the conscious awareness into the realm of the unconscious

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Unconscious

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Part of the mind beyond consciousness which nevertheless has a strong influence upon our actions

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Sublimation

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The repressed material is promoted into something grander or is disguised as something noble

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Ego, super-ego, I’d

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Three levels of personality - the consciousness, the conscience, and the unconscious

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Infantile sexuality

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Notion that sexuality begins not at puberty, with physical maturing, but in infancy, especially through the infant’s relationship with the mother

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Oedipus complex

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Male infant conceives the desire to eliminate the father and become the sexual partner of the mother

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Libido

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Energy drive associated with sexual desire; three stages of focus - oral, anal, phallic

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Eros

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Greek for love - Freud roughly means the life instinct

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Thanatos

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Death instinct

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Transference

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The phenomenon whereby the patient under analysis redirects the emotions recalled in analysis towards the psychoanalyst

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Projection

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When aspects of ourselves - usually negative ones - are not recognized as part of ourselves but are perceived in or attributed to another

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Defence mechanisms

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Psychic procedures for avoiding painful admissions or recognitions

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Screen memory

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Trivial or inconsequential memory whose function is to obliterate a more significant one

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Freudian slip

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“Parapraxis” - repressed material in the unconscious finds an outlet through such everyday phenomena as slips of the tongue, slips of the pen, or unintended actions

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Dream work

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The process by which real events or desires are transformed into dream images

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Displacement

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In dream work, one person or event is represented by another which is in some way linked or associated with it

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Condensation

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In dream work, number of people, events, or meanings are combined and represented by a single image in the dream

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Family in psychoanalysis

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We are a product of the role we are given in the family complex; birth of the unconscious lies in way we perceive our place in the family and how we react to this self definition

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Defenses

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Processes by which the contents of our unconscious are kept in the unconscious - selective perception and selective memory

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Regression

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Temporary return to a former psychological state, which is not just imagined but relived

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Active reversal

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In regression typically - acknowledgement and working through of repressed experiences and emotions

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Latent content

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Message our unconscious expresses in our dreams, which is the dream’s underlying meaning

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Displacement **

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Use a safe person, place, or event or object as a stand in to represent more threatening person, event, or object

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Primary revision

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Collectively the processes of displacement and condensation which occur while we dream

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Manifest content

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What we actually dream after the unconscious message (latent content) is disguised

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Secondary revision

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Process when we are awake and we forget certain parts of a dream or remember them differently from how the occurred