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...

Lacanianism or Lacanian psychoanalysis is a theoretical system that explains the mind, behaviour, and culture through a structuralist and post-structuralist...

theory, feminist theory and film theory, as well as on the practice of psychoanalysis itself. Lacan took up and discussed the whole range of Freudian concepts...

Excessive use of ego defenses results in neurosis, so a primary goal of psychoanalysis is to make the drives accessible to consciousness, allowing them to...

Relational psychoanalysis is a school of psychoanalysis in the United States that emphasizes the role of real and imagined relationships with others in...

of the representation of one's identity Resistance (psychoanalysis) – Term used in psychoanalysis describing oppositional behaviors Freud, Sigmund. The...

in gaining access to unconscious processes. The technique is used in psychoanalysis (and also in psychodynamic theory) which was originally devised by Sigmund...

Layman's Guide to Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis (Middlesex 1976), p. 101 Sigmund Freud, New Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis (London 1991), p. 136 Herbert...

London. Initially attracted to London by the "strange new subject called psychoanalysis", he met and was impressed by Wilfred Trotter, an outstanding brain...

In psychoanalysis, psychosexual development is a central element of the sexual drive theory. According to Freud, personality develops through a series...