The World Association of Psychoanalysis (WAP) is an organisation dedicated to promoting the development of psychoanalysis across the world. It follows...

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

post-structuralist extension of classical psychoanalysis. Lacanian perspectives contend that the human mind is structured by the world of language, known as the...

Psychoanalysis is a set of theories and techniques of research that deals with the unconscious mind's influence of the conscious mind. Based on talk therapy...

is one of the founding members of the École de la Cause freudienne (School of the Freudian Cause) and the World Association of Psychoanalysis which he...

Interpersonal psychoanalysis is based on the theories of American psychiatrist Harry Stack Sullivan (1892–1949). Sullivan believed that the details of a patient's...

In psychoanalysis, foreclosure (also known as "foreclusion"; French: forclusion) is a specific psychical cause for psychosis, according to French psychoanalyst...

In Freudian psychoanalysis, the term oral stage denotes the first psychosexual development stage wherein the mouth of the infant is their primary erogenous...

In psychoanalysis, a Freudian slip, also called parapraxis, is an error in speech, memory, or physical action that occurs due to the interference of an...

to psychoanalysis by George E. Atwood and Robert Stolorow (1984), who consider it a "meta-theory" of psychoanalysis. Intersubjective psychoanalysis suggests...

males and the Electra complex for females in his work The Theory of Psychoanalysis, Freud rejected this latter term, stating that the feminine Oedipus...

philosophy and psychoanalysis, jouissance is the transgression of a subject's regulation of pleasure. It is linked to the division and splitting of the subject...

identity Resistance (psychoanalysis) – Term used in psychoanalysis describing oppositional behaviors The New Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought, Third...

In classical psychoanalysis of Sigmund Freud, the death drive (German: Todestrieb) is the drive toward destruction in the sense of breaking down complex...

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

refers to a child's fear of having their genitalia disfigured or removed as punishment for Oedipal desire. In Freudian psychoanalysis, castration anxiety (Kastrationsangst)...

originally developed by Sigmund Freud, the pioneering originator of psychoanalysis. With direct reference to Plato's Eros, the term initially referred...

later in the World Association of Psychoanalysis. In the 1960s, Lacan was increasingly occupied with two intersecting themes: the issue of how to define...

conscious. The aim of psychoanalysis therapy is to release repressed emotions and experiences, i.e., make the unconscious conscious. Psychoanalysis is commonly...

Association (founded 1910) La Nueva Escuela Lacaniana (NEL) (Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela, Cuba, Colombia and Miami) World Association of Psychoanalysis (founded...

Freudian Analysis and Research World Association of Psychoanalysis Homepage of the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis and the San Francisco Society for...

school of thought in psychoanalytic theory and psychoanalysis centered around theories of stages of ego development. Its concerns include the relation of the...

The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis is the 1978 English-language translation of a seminar held by Jacques Lacan. The original (French: Le...

memories [of the unconscious]. [...] The personal shadow is rooted in the shadow of our social group, which has moulded our ego-ideal and world view[.]...

In psychoanalysis, cathexis (or emotional investment) is defined as the process of allocation of mental or emotional energy to a person, object, or idea...

founder of psychoanalysis, conducting a lengthy correspondence paramount to their joint vision of human psychology. Jung is widely regarded as one of the...

is a 1905 work by Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, in which the author advances his theory of sexuality, in particular its relation to childhood...

– 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies seen as...

president of the World Association of Psychoanalysis. Trained by Jacques Lacan in the nineteen-seventies, Éric Laurent was a member of the directorate of the...

grouping clusters of emotions, memories, perceptions and wishes in response to a threat to the stability of the self. In psychoanalysis, it is antithetical...