title: Glossary of psychoanalysis
text: # 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.
  
  ## Contents
  
  * A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
  * References
  
  ## 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
  