Psychoanalytic theory

Neurosis () is a term mainly used today by followers of Freudian psychoanalytic theory to describe mental disorders caused by past anxiety, often anxieties that have undergone repression. In recent history, the term has been used to refer to anxiety-related conditions more generally.

Structuralism is an intellectual current and methodological approach, primarily in the social sciences, that interprets elements of human culture by way of their relationship to a broader system. It works to uncover the structural patterns that underlie all things that humans do, think, perceive, and feel.

dream where one is aware that they are dreaming

austrian-British psychoanalyst (1895–1982)

Psychological ethological theory about human relationships

psychologist concepts by Sigmund Freud

thumb|200px|William-Adolphe Bouguereau|Bouguereau's ''L'Innocence: [[Women, young children, and lambs are all symbols of innocence.]] thumb|Innocence'' by Pierre Paul Prud'hon, Innocence is a lack of guilt, with respect to any kind of crime, or wrongdoing. In a legal context, innocence is prior to the sense of legal guilt and is a primal emotion connected with the sense of self. It is often confused as being the opposite of the guilt of an individual, with respect to a crime. In other contexts, it is a lack of experience.

psychoanalytic theory and method of therapy

thumb|right|An artist's depiction of a dream

Oneiromancy () is a form of divination based upon dreams, and also uses dreams to predict the future. Oneirogen plants may also be used to produce or enhance dream-like states of consciousness. Occasionally, the dreamer feels as if they are transported to another time or place, and this is offered as evidence they are in fact providing divine information upon their return.

thumb|right|260px|Freud's soul model, referring to his rider-horse parable: the human head symbolises the ego, the animal the id. Similarly, the dynamics of the libido (drive energy) branches out from the id into two main areas: the mental urge to know and the bodily urge to act. Both are bundled into action by the ego with the aim of satisfying the id's basic needs. This includes perception and judgement of the external reality and leads to experiences that the superego internalises via neuronal imprinting. Moral education gives the superego its function as our 'conscience'; generally speakin

form of psychology centered on social structures and gender

In psychology and psychiatry, scopophilia or scoptophilia ( , "look to", "to examine" + , "the tendency towards") is an aesthetic pleasure drawn from looking at an object or a person. In human sexuality, the term scoptophilia describes the sexual pleasure that a person derives from looking at prurient objects of eroticism, such as pornography, the nude body, and fetishes, as a substitute for actual participation in a sexual relationship.

theory of personality organization developed by Sigmund Freud

principle of activity powering the operation of the mind or psyche

interactions between health personnel and patients

emotion in men brought about by their lack of the female biologic capabilities

theory that seeks to organize subjective feelings into discrete categories

Dreamwork is the exploration of the images and emotions that a dream presents and evokes. It differs from classical dream interpretation in that it does not attempt to establish a unique meaning for the dream. In this way the dream remains "alive" whereas if it has been assigned a specific meaning, it is "finished" (i.e., over and done with). Dreamworkers take the position that a dream may have a variety of meanings depending on the levels (e.g. subjective, objective) that are being explored.

positive sense of self

Pansexualism is a hypothesis in psychology "that regards all desire and interest as derived from [the] sex instinct" or, in other words, "that the sex instinct plays the primary part in all human activity, mental and physical"

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