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psychoanalysis Definition

psycho·analy·sis (sī′kō ə nal′ə sis)

noun

  1. a method, developed by Freud and others, of investigating mental processes and of treating neuroses and some other disorders of the mind: it is based on the assumption that such disorders are the result of the rejection by the conscious mind of factors that then persist in the unconscious as repressed instinctual forces, causing conflicts which may be resolved or diminished by discovering and analyzing the repressions and bringing them into consciousness through the use of such techniques as free association, dream analysis, etc.
  2. the theory or practice of this

Etymology: ModL: see psycho- & analysis

psychoanalysis Related Forms
psy′cho·an′a·lyt′ic (-an′ə lit′ik) adjective or psy′cho·an′a·lyt′i·cal psy′cho·an′a·lyt′i·cally adverb
psychoanalysis Synonyms

psychoanalysis

n.

therapy, analysis, psychotherapy, depth psychiatry, depth psychology, dream analysis, interpretation of dreams, depth interview, psychoanalytic therapy, group therapy; see also therapy.

psychoanalysis Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • undergo: Several of the staff at the Naval Hospital were undergoing psychoanalysis.
  • include: There are a number of different approaches, including psychoanalysis.
  • do: Does psychoanalysis have anything to offer an understanding of terrorism?
  • think: And this is what I think psychoanalysis is about.
  • develop: Freud developed psychoanalysis, the first type of ' talking cure ' .
  • use: A real, raw authentic performance - no matter how rehearsed this is an ironic take on the loftiness given to artworks using psychoanalysis.

Preposition: as

  • tool: The unit will conclude by posing a critical evaluation of psychoanalysis as a tool for understanding both human identity and film representations.
  • way: I am also using some psychoanalysis as a way of finding meaning and understanding in their work.
  • discipline: This issue is to my mind crucial for the future of psychoanalysis as a clinical discipline.

Adjective modifier

  • Freudian: Indeed, the cult of Freudian psychoanalysis is only slowly waning.
  • clinical: The Center's teachers are chosen from among those developing their ideas in theoretical and clinical psychoanalysis or engaged in research.
  • contemporary: Contemporary psychoanalysis is not a matter of going back to the past, or living in the past.
  • classical: This method is about one hundred years old and is known as classical psychoanalysis.
  • British: His research interests include the transmission of Freud's theory and clinical practice into early British psychoanalysis.
  • personal: PERSONAL TRAINING ANALYSIS All students have a personal psychoanalysis with an approved training analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society.

Modifies a noun

  • cannot: It is because of this that psychoanalysis cannot situate its horizon as that of an ideal.

Noun used with modifier

  • child: She trained at the Institute of psychoanalysis and she is qualified in adult and child psychoanalysis.
  • 'pure: What are we to understand here by 'pure psychoanalysis ' ?

Possessives

  • term: Birth of Anna Freud ( Dec 3 ) 1896 First use of the term ' psychoanalysis ' ; death of his father.

Preposition: of

  • child: This course may be done in conjunction with the Institute's training in the psychoanalysis of children and adolescents.
psychoanalysis Quotes

Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It had no mother.

—Greer, Germaine

In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.

—Adorno,Theodor

Freud becomes one of the dramatis personae, in fact, as discoverer of the great and beautiful modern myth of psychoanalysis.By myth, I mean a poetic, dramatic expression of a hidden truth; and in placing this emphasis, I do not intend to put into question the scientific validity of psychoanalysis.

—Thomas, D(onald) M(itchell)

I always say that a successful parent is one who raises a child so that they can pay for their own psychoanalysis.

—Ephron, Nora

Look at it this way: Psychoanalysis is a permanent fad.

—DeVries, Peter

Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.

—Hughes, Robert Studley Forrest