Freud's Psychoanalysis

Some of Freud's important works:

The Interpretation of Dreams
Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious
The Psychopathology of Everyday Life
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
Civilization and Its Discontents

Some important psychoanalytic terms and concepts:

pleasure principle

reality principle

sublimation

repression

unconscious (also called "id"; abbreviated "UCS")

condensation (related to metaphor)

displacement (related to metonymy)

parapraxes

erotogenic zones

libido; libidinal pleasure; libidinal drives

oral, anal, and phallic zones/stages

polymorphously perverse

latency

autoerotism

object; aim

perversion; neurosis

Oedipus Complex

masculine/feminine

castration anxiety

castration complex

superego

penis envy


Last revision: September 24, 1997
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