Thanatos

Civilization and Its Discontents
Paul Federn
Sigmund Freud
Thanatos

(psychoanalysis) The death drive in Freudian psychoanalysis.


project

en-verb

project (third-person singular simple present projects, present participle projecting, simple past and past participle projected)

projects (present singular third-person)
projecting (participle present)
projected (participle past)
projected (past)

/pɹəˈd͡ʒɛkt/

From Latin prōiectus, perfect passive participle of prōiciō (“throw forth, extend; expel”).

(transitive, psychology, psychoanalysis) To assume qualities or mindsets in others based on one's own personality.


oral

PIE word
 *h₁óh₃s
Early 17th century borrowing from Late Latin ōrālis, from ōs (“the mouth”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix).

af

(psychoanalysis, in Freudian theory) Relating to or denoting a stage of infantile psychosexual development during which libidinal gratification is derived from intake (as of food), by sucking, and later by biting.


complex

en-noun

complex (plural complexes or (nonstandard) complices)

complexes (plural)
complices (nonstandard plural)

From French complexe, from Latin complexus, past participle of complector (“I entwine, encircle, compass, infold”), from com- (“together”) and plectere (“to weave, braid”). May be analyzed as com- + -plex. See complect. Doublet of complexus.

համալիր

assemblage of related things, collection

coordination complex

coordinated complex, metal complex, Werner complex

(psychoanalysis) A collection of ideas caused by repressed emotions that leads to an abnormal mental condition


sublimate

en-verb

sublimate (third-person singular simple present sublimates, present participle sublimating, simple past and past participle sublimated)

sublimates (present singular third-person)
sublimating (participle present)
sublimated (participle past)
sublimated (past)

From Middle English sublymate, from Latin sublīmātus, past participle of sublīmāre (“to raise, elevate”).

sublimovat

to modify (the natural expression of a sexual or primitive instinct) in a socially acceptable manner

Foreigners extol the American "energy" […] Basically it is the energy of violence, of free-floating resentment and anxiety unleashed by chronic cultural dislocations which must be, for the most part, ferociously sublimated. This energy has mainly been sublimated into crude materialism and acquisitiveness.

1969, Susan Sontag, “What’s Happening in America”, in Styles of Radical Will, Kindle edition, Penguin Modern Classics, published 2009, →ISBN, page 194:

When he got home from the parade, however, Professor Solanka was seized by melancholy, his usual secret sadness, which he sublimated into the public sphere. Something was amiss with the world. The optimistic peace-and-love philosophy of his youth having given him up, he no longer knew how to reconcile himself to an increasingly phoney […] reality.

2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 7:

(figurative, psychoanalysis) To modify (the natural expression of a sexual or primitive instinct) in a socially acceptable manner; to divert the energy of (such an instinct) into some acceptable activity.

(figurative, psychoanalysis) To modify the natural expression of a sexual or primitive instinct in a socially acceptable manner; to divert the energy of such an instinct into some acceptable activity.


stroke

stroke (third-person singular simple present strokes, present participle stroking, simple past and past participle stroked)

strokes (present singular third-person)
stroking (participle present)
stroked (participle past)
stroked (past)
stroke (infinitive)
stroke (first-person present singular)
stroked (first-person past singular)
stroke (present second-person singular)
strokest (archaic present second-person singular)
stroked (past second-person singular)
strokedst (archaic past second-person singular)
strokes (present singular third-person)
stroketh (archaic present singular third-person)
stroked (past singular third-person)
stroke (plural present)
stroked (past plural)
stroke (present subjunctive)
stroked (past subjunctive)
stroke (imperative present)
stroking (participle present)
stroked (participle past)

The verb is derived from Middle English stroken, straken (“to caress, fondle, pat, rub, smooth, stroke; to pass something over (someone or something); to brush or rub against;”) [and other forms], from Old English strācian (“to stroke”), from Proto-West Germanic *straikōn (“to caress, stroke”), from *straik (“a line, stroke; a dash”) (see further at etymology 1) + *-ōn (suffix forming verbs from nouns).
The noun is derived from the verb.
Cognates
* German streicheln (“to stroke, fondle”)
* German Low German straken, strieken, strakeln, striekeln (“to stroke; caress; fondle”)
* Middle Low German strēken, Middle Dutch strēken (modern Dutch streeken)
* Old High German strīhhan, streihhōn, Middle High German strīchen (modern German streichen (“to stroke; to rub; to spread; to apply; to paint; to cancel; to cross out, strike out; to delete; to discard”))
* Saterland Frisian strookje (“to stroke; caress”)
* West Frisian streakje (“to stroke; caress”)

nb...

strok, stroke, (Northern England, Scotland) straike, strake, (Early Middle English) straca, stracien

cog

[W]hen thou cam'ſt firſt / Thou ſtroakſt me, & made much of me: […]

1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 4, column 2:

(especially psychoanalysis) To give assurance to (someone) through encouragement.


anal

en-adj

anal (comparative more anal, superlative most anal)

more anal (comparative)
most anal (superlative)

Borrowed from Latin ānālis.
Psychological sense shortened from anal-retentive.

(psychoanalysis) Of the stage in psychosexual development when the child's interest is alleged to be concentrated on the anal region. [from 20th c.]

anal

of the stage in psychosexual development


constellation

PIE word
 *ḱóm
From Middle English constellacioun, constillacioun (“(astrology) position of the moon or a planet in relation to the ascendant sign of the zodiac; horoscope; (astronomy) formation of fixed stars, constellation; (astronomy) elevation or position of the sun”) [and other forms], borrowed from Old French constellation (modern French constellation), or directly from its etymon Late Latin cōnstēllātiōnem, the accusative singular of cōnstēllātiō (“collection of stars supposed to exert an influence upon human affairs, constellation”), from Latin con- (prefix denoting a bringing together of several objects) + stēlla (“star; meteor; planet”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr (“star”)) + -ātiō (suffix forming nouns).

nb...

constelacioun, constellacion, constellacyon, constellacyoun, constillacion, constillacione, constillacioune, constillatioun, constollacion, constolacioun

sterrebeeld

arbitrary formation of stars perceived as a figure or pattern, or a division of the sky including it

rykelmä

(figurative) A configuration or grouping of related things.

(psychoanalysis) Synonym of complex (“a collection of ideas caused by repressed emotions that leads to an abnormal mental condition”)


id

From New Latin id (“it”), chosen by Freud’s translator as a translation of his use of German Es (“it”) as a noun for this concept from the pronoun es (“it”).

"There is one sentence in it, however - namely: 'I protest strongly against the insufferable and entirely dogmatic assertion that each separate id is a microcosm possessed of an historical architecture elaborated slowly through the series of generations.' Have you no desire, in view of later research, to modify this statement?"

1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

Almost as an afterthought, we’re given an origin story for Barney’s alcoholism: he was once a sober, studious, Ivy League-bound high school scholar before Homer forced a beer on him that transformed him into a drooling, slurring, out of control rampaging id.

2012 June 3, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):

The phenomenon may seem like a random burble of the internet’s id, but Alvarez has been making similarly entrancing—if mostly nonmusical—work for the past few years.

2023 September 27, Spencer Kornhaber, “The Weirdos Living Inside Our Phones”, in The Atlantic:

(psychoanalysis) The unconscious impulsive component of the personality in the Freudian psychoanalytic model.


cathexis

en-noun

cathexis (countable and uncountable, plural cathexes)

From Ancient Greek κάθεξις (káthexis, “holding, retention”). The term entered the English language as a translation for the common everyday German word Besetzung, which in the context of psychoanalysis means "occupation" in the sense of a position or something being occupied or filled, and not a military occupation of a place or the filling of job positions (although it can also mean either of these in other contexts). (In English translations, a Greek word was used to be more scientific.)

bor

How contemporary artistic performances elicit cathexis on the part of the audience and promote unifying social rituals.

2013, Isher-Paul Sahni, “More than Horseplay”, in Studies in Popular Culture, volume 35, page 76:

(psychoanalysis) The concentration of libido or emotional energy on a single object or idea.

catexi

the concentration of libido or emotional energy on a single object or idea


gaze

From Middle English gasen; akin to Swedish dialectal gasa and Gothic 𐌿𐍃𐌲𐌰𐌹𐍃𐌾𐌰𐌽 (usgaisjan, “to terrify”).

cog

She counters the tendency to focus on critical strategies of resisting the male gaze, raising the issue of the female spectator.

2003, Amelia Jones, The feminism and visual culture reader, page 35:

(psychoanalysis) In Lacanian psychoanalysis, the relationship of the subject with the desire to look and awareness that one can be viewed.


uncanny

From un- + canny; thus “beyond one's ken,” or outside one's familiar knowledge or perceptions. Compare Middle English unkanne (“unknown”). In the noun sense a translation of Sigmund Freud's usage of German unheimlich (Das Unheimliche, 1919).

This uncontrollable possibility—the possibility of a certain loss of control—can, perhaps, explain why the uncanny remains a marginal notion even within psychoanalysis itself.

1982, Samuel Weber, The Legend of Freud, page 20:

As is well known, Freud introduced the concept of the uncanny into psychoanalysis in 1919 and used The Sandman as a prime illustration for his definition.

1994, Sonu Shamdasani, Michael Münchow, Speculations after Freud, page 186:

In the preceding chapter, we saw that Freud linked the maternal body, death, and the afterlife with the uncanny in his famous essay "The Uncanny" ("Das Unheimliche").

2001, Diane Jonte-Pace, Speaking the Unspeakable, page 81:

The uncanny involves feelings of uncertainty, in particular regarding the reality of who one is and what is being experienced.

2003, Nicholas Royle, The Uncanny, page 1:

Freud argued that the uncanny was particularly associated with feelings of horror aroused by the figure of the paternal castrator, neglecting the tropes of woman and animal as a source of the uncanny.

2005, Barbara Creed, Phallic Panic, page vii:

[The uncanny is] something that was long familiar to the psyche and was estranged from it only through being repressed. The link with repression now illuminates Schelling′s definition of the uncanny as ‘something that should have remained hidden and has come into the open.’ (Freud: 2003, 147 f)

2011, Espen Dahl, Hans-Gunter Heimbrock, In Between: The Holy Beyond Modern Dichotomies, page 99:

Because the uncanny affects and haunts everything, it is in constant transformation and cannot be pinned down.

2011, Anneleen Masschelein, The Unconcept: The Freudian Uncanny in Late-Twentieth-Century Theory, page 2:

(psychology, psychoanalysis, Freud) Something that is simultaneously familiar and strange, typically leading to feelings of discomfort.

inquiétante étrangeté

something that is simultaneously familiar and strange


fantasy

en-verb

fantasy (third-person singular simple present fantasies, present participle fantasying, simple past and past participle fantasied)

fantasies (present singular third-person)
fantasying (participle present)
fantasied (participle past)
fantasied (past)
phantasie (alternative obsolete)
phantasy (alternative archaic)

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Noun inherited from Middle English fantasie, from Old French fantasie (“fantasy”), from Latin phantasia (“imagination”), from Ancient Greek φαντασία (phantasía, “apparition”), from φαντάζω (phantázō, “to render visible”), from φαντός (phantós, “visible”), from φαίνω (phaínō, “to make visible”); from the same root as φάος (pháos, “light”); ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰh₂nyéti, from the root *bʰeh₂- (“to shine”). Doublet of fancy, fantasia, phantasia, and phantasy.
Verb from Middle English fantasien, from Old French fantasier. Doublet of fancy.

doublet

Perhaps I would be able to help him recapture the well-being and emotional closeness he fantasied his brother had experienced with his parents prior to his birth.

2013, Mark J. Blechner, Hope and Mortality: Psychodynamic Approaches to AIDS and HIV:

(literary, psychoanalysis) To fantasize about something).


abreaction

Partial calque of German Abreagierung, from ab (“away from”) + Reagierung (“reaction”).

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(psychoanalysis) The re-living of an experience with a view to purging its emotional dross.


superego

superegos (plural)
super-ego (alternative)

From super + ego, from earlier form super-ego, calqued after German Über-Ich, from über- (“super-”) + Ich (“ego”), from the pronoun ich (“I”).

Still, it would be an error to believe that psychoanalytic theory makes no contribution to describing and assessing different types of ethical conduct. The crucial notion in this connection is the relative rigidity or flexibility of the superego. The childish, immature, or neurotic superego is rigid; it is characterized by slavish adherence to rules which, moreover, may not be clearly understood. The mature or normal superego, on the other hand, is flexible; it can evaluate the situation at hand and modify the rules accordingly. Thus, in an early, classic paper, Strachey suggested that the basic aim of psychoanalytic treatment is to make such “mutative interpretations” as would help to render the patient’s “rigid superego” more “flexible”.⁸ Like the psychoanalytic theory of the superego, on which it is based, this view suffers from the limitation of being silent on what sort of rigidity is considered bad or undesirable and what sort of flexibility is considered good or desirable.

1974, Thomas S. Szasz, chapter 9, in The Myth of Mental Illness, →ISBN, page 152:

(psychoanalysis) The part of the mind that acts as a self-critical conscience, reflecting social standards that have been learnt.


Oedipus complex

en-noun

Oedipus complex (plural Oedipus complexes)

Named after Oedipus in Greek mythology, who unwittingly killed his father and married his mother.

He never palliated his villainy, never helped old ladies across the street to show that he was a sweet kid au fond or prated about his Oedipus complex like the Percy boys who portray heavies today.

1957, S[idney] J[oseph] Perelman, “Cloudland Revisited: Vintage Swine”, in The Road to Miltown: Or, Under the Spreading Atrophy (A Touchstone Book), 1st Touchstone paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, published 1971, →ISBN, page 88:

(psychoanalysis) In Freudian theory, the complex of emotions aroused in a child by an unconscious sexual desire for the parent of the opposite sex.


Oedipal

Œdipal (alternative)
oedipal (alternative)

(psychoanalysis) Of or relating to the Oedipus complex.


Freudian

en-adj

Freudian (comparative more Freudian, superlative most Freudian)

more Freudian (comparative)
most Freudian (superlative)
freudian (alternative)

(psychoanalysis) Susceptible to analysis in terms of unconscious thoughts or desires.

freudiansk

susceptible to analysis in terms of unconscious thoughts or desires


genital

/ˈd͡ʒɛnətəl/

/ˈd͡ʒɛnɪtəl/

From Middle English genital, from Latin genitalis (“of or belonging to generation”), from genitus, past participle of gignō (“to beget, generate”); see genus.

der

(psychoanalysis) Of, or relating to psychosexual development during puberty.

płciowy

of, or relating to psychosexual development during puberty


cycloid

(psychoanalysis) characterized by alternating high and low moods.


phallus

phalli (plural)
phalluses (plural)
phallos (alternative)

From Latin phallus (“membrum virile, phallus, or a figure thereof”) from Ancient Greek φαλλός (phallós).

bor

(psychoanalysis) The signifier of the desire of the Other, and the signifier of jouissance.


penis envy

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(psychoanalysis) The unconscious desire of a woman to possess a penis.


biodynamic

en-adj

biodynamic (comparative more biodynamic, superlative most biodynamic)

more biodynamic (comparative)
most biodynamic (superlative)

biologisch-dynamisch

Relating to agriculture according to anthroposophic precepts

(New Age, psychoanalysis, pseudoscience) Of, or relating to a form of psychotherapy, massage and energy healing developed by Gerda Boyesen in Norway in the 1950s.


foreclosure

en-noun

foreclosure (countable and uncountable, plural foreclosures)

From foreclose by analogy with closure, equivalent to fore- + closure.

(psychoanalysis) The absence of a symbolic father for a fatherless child, as a cause for psychosis.


anaclitic

From Ancient Greek ἀνάκλιτος (anáklitos, “for reclining”), from ἀνακλίνω (anaklínō). Originally in the phrase anaclitic type, translating Freud's term Anlehnungstypus.

der

I don’t think I have to gloss the true anaclitic purport behind your need to humiliate a woman doctor symbolically.

(psychoanalysis) Denoting a person whose choice of love-interest arises from the dependence of the libido on another instinct (e.g., hunger).


abreact

en-verb

abreact (third-person singular simple present abreacts, present participle abreacting, simple past and past participle abreacted)

abreacts (present singular third-person)
abreacting (participle present)
abreacted (participle past)
abreacted (past)

Partial calque of German abreagieren, from ab (“away from, off, down from”) + reagieren (“to react”).

(transitive, psychoanalysis) To eliminate previously repressed emotions by reliving past experiences.


peripeteia

en-noun

peripeteia (countable and uncountable, plural peripeteias)

peripeteias (plural)
peripetia (alternative)
peripety (alternative)

/pɛɹɪpɪˈtɪə/

/pɛɹɪpɪˈtaɪə/

/pɛɹɪpɪˈtiə/

/pɛɹɪpɪˈteɪə/

From Late Latin peripetia, and its source Ancient Greek περιπέτεια (peripéteia), from περιπίπτω (peripíptō, “to change suddenly”), from περί (perí, “round, around, about”) + the stem of πίπτω (píptō, “to fall”).

The visual moment whose consequences Freud began to ponder in the essay on the phallic stage has evolved into a peripeteia: "Some day or other it happens that the child whose own penis is such a proud possession obtains a sight of the genital parts of a little girl; he must then become convinced of the absence of a penis in a creature so like himeself. With this, however, the loss of his own penis becomes imaginable, and the threat of castration achieves its delayed effect."

1989, Elizabeth Abel, Virginia Woolf and the Fictions of Psychoanalysis, →ISBN, page 6:

(psychoanalysis) A turning point in psychosocial development.


anality

anality (countable and uncountable, plural analities)

If the relationship between Protestantism and repressed anality is so close, then anality loosed from repression can be powerful to the point of political […]

1980, Arthur Asa Berger, Film in Society, page 133:

It is important to note that not only anality, but also orality, causes pleasure […]

1994, Arleen B. Dallery, Transitions in Continental Philosophy, page 93:

no one has ever thought to praise him for the anality of his humor.

2003, Frank Krutnik, Richard Bradley, Hollywood Comedians: the Film Reader, page 79:

(psychoanalysis) The state of being anal.


pulsion

Borrowed from French pulsion, from Latin pulsio.

(psychoanalysis) A subconscious drive or impulse.


overdetermined

en-adj

overdetermined (comparative more overdetermined, superlative most overdetermined)

more overdetermined (comparative)
most overdetermined (superlative)

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(usually psychoanalysis) Determined by multiple causes in such a way that any of the causes on its own would be sufficient to account for the effect.


primal scene

Calque of German Urszene. Coined by Sigmund Freud in 1914.

1983, William J. Kerrigan, The Sacred Complex: On the Psychogenesis of Paradise Lost, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 164,
The primal scene is the site at which the issues of ego differentiation become translated into the issues of the oedipus complex.

1989, Andrew Samuels, The Plural Psyche:: Personality, Morality, and the Father, Routledge, →ISBN, page 123,
The father's presence and image, together with those of the mother, form the raw material of the primal scene.

1995, Joel Whitebook, Perversion and Utopia: a study in psychoanalysis and critical theory, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 51,
She argues that perverse sexual activity constitutes an attempt to restage the primal scene in such a way as to eliminate its traumatic aspects.

Jeffrey Beaumont’s interslat voyeurism may be a sick parody of the Primal Scene, but neither he (a “college boy”) nor anybody else in the movie ever shows any inclination to say anything like “Gee, this is sort of like a sick parody of the good old Primal Scene” or even betrays any awareness that a lot of what’s going on is—both symbolically and psychoanalytically—heavy as hell.

1997, David Foster Wallace, “David Lynch keeps his head”, in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Kindle edition, Little, Brown Book Group:

(psychoanalysis) In Freudian theory, the first time a child witnesses (and understands) his or her parents copulating.

primalscene

in Freudian theory, the first time a child witnesses (and understands) its parents copulating


Reichian

A shocking Riechian ^([sic]) look at how repressed and thwarted sexuality manifests itself in fascist politics.

1991 April 6, Michael Bronski, “Spanning the Years”, in Gay Community News, page 7:

(psychoanalysis) Relating to or influenced by the Austrian psychiatrist Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957) and his therapeutic methods.

reichiansk

relating to or influenced by the Austrian psychiatrist Wilhelm Reich


Reichian

(psychoanalysis) A follower of Reich or his methods.


primal horde

… Freud's analyses from his 1913 Totem and taboo, of how the primal horde of rebellious sons overcame the patriarchal father and set up public totems and taboos as means to eternalize their resultant guilt.

2003, Robert S. Corrington, Wilhelm Reich. Psychoanalyst and Radical Naturalist. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 104

(psychoanalysis) In Freudian psychoanalysis, an archetypal cathexis of the sons usurping their father's hierarchical position; the basis of the Oedipus complex, and sometimes resulting in totemism.


preoral

(psychoanalysis) Prior to the oral stage, in Freudian psychoanalysis.


disaffectation

From disaffect + -ation, perhaps with influence from (or confusion due to) affectation.

(psychoanalysis) alexithymia, a neurological condition characterized by severe lack of emotional awareness


sublimated

sublimated (comparative more sublimated, superlative most sublimated)

more sublimated (comparative)
most sublimated (superlative)

(psychoanalysis) Modified from the natural expression of a sexual or primitive instinct into a socially acceptable manner.


Electra complex

en-noun

Electra complex (plural Electra complexes)

With reference to Electra of Greek mythology, who killed her mother.

"No plot! Why, dammit girl, it's all plot, woven about that most fascinating of human problems, the Electra complex!"

1961, Xavier Herbert, Soldiers' Women, Netley, SA: Fontana Books, published 1978, page 234:

(psychoanalysis) The theory that a female's psychological development involves a sexual attachment to the father and jealousy of the mother.


Freudianism

Freudianism (usually uncountable, plural Freudianisms)

Freudianisms (plural)
Freudism (alternative)

(psychology, psychoanalysis) Freudian beliefs and practices, particularly the mechanism of psychological repression, the centrality of sexual desire to the development of the persona, and the efficacy of the "talking cure" or psychoanalytic technique.


afterwardsness

From afterwards + -ness. Coined by Jean Laplanche in his 1998 work Essays on Otherness, as a translation of Sigmund Freud's German term Nachträglichkeit, on the model of the French translation après-coup.

(psychoanalysis) The concept that an earlier event in one's life can later acquire a meaning.

posterioridade

the concept that an earlier event in one's life can later acquire a meaning


peripety

peripety (countable and uncountable, plural peripeties)

(psychoanalysis) The third stage of a dream in Jungian theory.


Lacanian

en-adj

Lacanian (comparative more Lacanian, superlative most Lacanian)

more Lacanian (comparative)
most Lacanian (superlative)

For him, then, the only truly liberating response is a Lacanian act, an attack on the fundamental fantasy of our current social configuration.

2009, Wesley C. Swedlow, Against the Personification of Democracy: A Lacanian Critique of Political Subjectivity, Continuum International, page 11:

(psychoanalysis) Of, pertaining to, or resembling the psychoanalytical views of Jacques Lacan (1901–1981).


Adlerian

Adlerian (comparative more Adlerian, superlative most Adlerian)

more Adlerian (comparative)
most Adlerian (superlative)

individual psychology
individual psychology

(psychoanalysis) Of or relating to Alfred Adler (1870–1937), Austrian medical doctor, psychotherapist, and founder of the school of individual psychology.

adleriano

relating to Austrian psychotherapist Alfred Adler


osphresiolagnia

From Ancient Greek ὄσφρησις (ósphrēsis, “sense of smell”) (from ὄζω (ózō, “to smell”)) + λαγνεία (lagneía, “lust, coition”).

uder

1910, Karl Abraham, Douglas Bryan, Alix Strachey (translators), The Man who Loved Corsets, reprinted in 1959, Harold Greenwald, Great Cases in Psychoanalysis, 1987, page 45,
In the present case it turned out that the patient had passed through a stage which corresponded to smell-fetishism, and that after this a peculiar modification had taken place by which his osphresiolagnia (abnormal interest in odors [Ed.]) had been repressed and his pleasure in looking had been sublimated to pleasure in seeing foot-wear which had an æsthetic value.

In the Hindu theory of ojas and sublimation, we may have an interesting complement to the Freudian hypothesis about osphresiolagnia and its 'repression'.

1950, Swami Smaranananda, Awakened India, volume 60, page 87:

This instance belongs to the field of osphresiolagnia, the fetishistic-libidinal attachment to odors, especially those emanating from some part of the loved one's body.

1964, Benjamin Karpman, The Sexual Offender and His Offenses: Etiology, Pathology, Psychodynamics, and Treatment, page 496:

(psychology, psychoanalysis) Sexual arousal through olfactory stimulation.


anaclisis

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀνάκλισις (anáklisis), intended as a calque of German Anlehnung.

(psychoanalysis) The choice of an object of libidinal attachment on the basis of a resemblance to early childhood protective and parental figures.


preoedipal

(psychoanalysis) Before the formation of the Oedipus complex.


hystericize

en-verb

hystericize (third-person singular simple present hystericizes, present participle hystericizing, simple past and past participle hystericized)

hystericizes (present singular third-person)
hystericizing (participle present)
hystericized (participle past)
hystericized (past)

(transitive, psychoanalysis) To make hysterical.


pleasure principle

Bork warns that America is in the grip of a radical individualism that recognizes no limit to the right of personal gratification, one for which the pleasure principle is the only principle that counts.

December 28 1998, Richard Lacayo, "Where The Right Went Wrong," Time (retrieved 4 July 2015)

Health, too, was a consideration, though it was very much pleasure-principle health—the right to wring out every last throb of ecstasy from one's knackered organs.

2002 January 26, Howard Jacobson, “A vision that took me back to adolescence, and a lot of American women to childhood”, in Independent, UK, retrieved 2015-07-04:

They can’t seem to decide if the moral imperative is more crucial than the pleasure principle, or the other way around.

2008 March 16, Claire Dederer, "Brownstoners" (book review of The Future of Love by Shirley Abbott), New York Times (retrieved 4 July 2015)

The pleasure principle is, on the whole, a sound one, then: having what you like is fine so long as you don't have too much of it in one go.

2009 January 3, Blake Morrison, “A little of what you fancy”, in Guardian, UK, retrieved 2015-07-04:

(psychology, psychoanalysis, Freudianism, often hyphenated when used attributively) The principle that human decisions and behavior are strongly motivated by the instinctual desire of the id, arising in infancy, to experience pleasure and avoid pain.

快樂原則 /快乐原则

principle that human decisions are motivated by desire


reality principle

"What you're really talking about is the concept of postponed gratification," Dr. New says. "Freud said that one of the major ways to look at development is the task of the individual to subordinate the pleasure principle to the reality principle and that is a slow process."

1983 August 14, Harvey D. Shapiro, “Personal Finance: Summer Jobs—A Lesson in Economics I”, in New York Times, retrieved 2015-07-22:

A flaky mom, restless with unrealized dreams. A wise child, stubbornly asserting the reality principle. . . . It is one of feminism's Ur-legends, the stuff of countless contemporary novels and films.

1999 November 22, Richard Schickel, “Cinema: Travels with Mommy”, in Time, retrieved 2015-07-22:

At first, we're likely to warm to Dean's exuberance and take against the apparently entrenched sourness of Cindy, who seems a slave to the reality principle; yet she is the only one of the pair who's remotely facing up to life's routine demands.

2011 Jan. 16, Jonathan Romney, "Blue Valentine" (film review), Independent (UK) (retrieved 22 July 2015)

(psychology, psychoanalysis, Freudianism, often hyphenated when used attributively) The mental mechanism which guides a person, as he or she matures, in adapting to and coping with the real, external world, by suppressing or deferring the childish gratification-seeking desires of the id.

現實原則 /现实原则

mechanism which guides a person in coping with the real world


crusader complex

en-noun

crusader complex (plural crusader complexes)

(psychoanalysis) A delusional state where the subject believes that he or she is struggling for a just and noble cause.


day's residue

days' residues (plural)
day residue (alternative)

Calque of German Tagesreste, coined by Sigmund Freud.

(psychoanalysis) Elements of the events of the preceding day that subsequently occur in a dream.


family romance

From family + romance, in psychoanalytic sense after German Familienroman.

Every encounter with friend or foe, every clash with or submission to authority bears the perverse traces of family romance.

(psychoanalysis) A childhood fantasy whereby a child imagines that their real parents are in fact royalty or otherwise of high birth; (loosely), the emotional ties linking the various members of a family.


Bionian

en-adj

Bionian (comparative more Bionian, superlative most Bionian)

more Bionian (comparative)
most Bionian (superlative)

(psychoanalysis) Of or relating to Wilfred Bion (1897–1979), influential British psychoanalyst.


ocnophilic

ocnophilic (comparative more ocnophilic, superlative most ocnophilic)

more ocnophilic (comparative)
most ocnophilic (superlative)

From ocnophil + -ic. Coined by Hungarian psychoanalyst Michael Balint in 1955.

coinage

Coordinate term: philobatic

The philobatic environment consists of friendly spaces littered with unpredictable objects; the ocnophilic world consists of objects 'separated by horrid empty spaces'.

2017, Lynda Nead, The Tiger in the Smoke: Art and Culture in Post-War Britain, New Haven, C.T., London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 92:

(psychoanalysis) Relating to, or characteristic of an ocnophil (someone who tends to avoid dangerous or unfamiliar situations).


ocnophil

From Ancient Greek ὀκνέω (oknéō, “to shrink from, fear, hesitate”) + -o- + -phile with the final "e" dropped. Coined by Hungarian psychoanalyst Michael Balint in 1955.

der

Coordinate term: philobat

People who need other people around them much of the time are people whose well-being depends massively on the feelings of others towards them. This alarms the philobats (the spacebats), but the ocnophils (the homebodies) like it that way.

2018, Josephine Klein, Doubts and Certainties in the Practice of Psychotherapy:

(psychoanalysis) A personality type characterised by avoidance of dangerous of unfamiliar situations, and the reliance on other people for security.


delibidinization

(psychoanalysis) The process of delibidinizing.


deaggressivization

(psychoanalysis) Neutralising the urges of aggression.


oral stage

(psychoanalysis) In Freudian psychoanalysis, the first stage of psychosexual development, during early infancy, when the baby's mouth is their primary erogenous zone.


death drive

The connection between the death drive and the symbolic order is a constant with Lacan, but we can differentiate the various stages of his teaching precisely by reference to the different modes of articulation of the death drive and the signifier: […]

1989, Slavoj Žižek, Ernesto Laclau, The Sublime Object of Ideology, Verso, →ISBN, page 131:

(psychoanalysis) The drive toward death and self-destruction.


utraquism

en-noun

utraquism (countable and uncountable, plural utraquisms)

One of [Sándor Ferenczi's] most productive epistemological ideas is that of utraquism[…]Derived from the Latin utraque, meaning 'one and the other', utraquism is the work of establishing relationships of analogy between distinct elements that belong to distinct fields of knowledge and strata of reality, with the aim of discovering or going deeper into the meaning of certain processes.

2018, Raluca Soreanu, Working-through Collective Wounds: Trauma, Denial, Recognition in the Brazilian Uprising, Palgrave Macmillan, page 37:

(psychoanalysis, specifically) A method that uses analogy to draw on insights from both objective natural science on the one hand, and subjective psychology and social science on the other.


foreclusion

Magritte, unique among the surrealists, survived the sea change from the modern to its sequel, becoming in the process something of a postmodern emblem: the uncanny, Lacanian foreclusion, without expression.

1991, Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Duke University Press, page 10:

1994, Willy Apollon, "The Discourse of Gangs in the Stake of Male Repression and Narcissism", in Lacanian Theory of Discourse: Subject, Structure, and Society, edited by Mark Bracher et al., New York University Press, page 214.
Indeed, if the mother is a whore, according to this representation of the gang, the son cannot trust her word to economize the foreclusion of the Names-of-the-Father that is the stake of psychosis.

(psychoanalysis) Alternative form of foreclosure


anal stage

(psychoanalysis) The Freudian stage of psychosocial development in which the chief erogenous zone is the anus and the child gains pleasure from learning to control the bowel and bladder.


Madonna-whore complex

Madonna-whore complex (plural Madonna-whore complexes)

Madonna-whore complexes (plural)
Madonna/whore complex (alternative)

‘Who’s That Knocking at My Door?’ [1967] was a film that dealt with a simple theme, one basic idea—a young guy trying to deal with his madonna-whore complex about women—plus a slight indication of what Little Italy was like.

1973 November 18, Gene Siskel, quoting Martin Scorsese, “Along the ‘Streets’ of Little Italy …”, in Chicago Tribune, section 6, page 6:

The female nurse, however, still fulfils a public stereotype, according to the nurses The Sydney Morning Herald spoke to. She suffers from the Madonna-whore complex – she is a Madonna in the ward because she “helps” people, but socially she’s a Nurse and everybody’s heard of nurses’ parties, haven’t they?

1981 June 20, “Nurses: think like a man, work like a dog, smile like an angel”, in The Sydney Morning Herald, number 44,765, page 33:

The analyst clarifies the enactments into reality of a defensive dissociation of the intimate object from the sexual object, a classic Madonna-and-Whore complex.

2005, The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Psychoanalysis, American Psychiatric Publishing, →ISBN:

“Just got here. Saw the light on my way up to the loo—then I saw your fat arse sticking up investigating Nanny’s drawers so I thought I’d pop in. I see her taste in quasi-nun’s outfits hasn’t changed since 1985,” she observed, flicking through the hangers. “Think she’s got a Madonna and whore complex?”

2008, Hester Browne, The Little Lady Agency and the Prince, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 375:

Under the Madonna-whore complexes that plagued me and most boys, there was a deep Christian fear of ourselves as animals, creatures of flesh more than spirit.

2013, Andrew Hudgins, “Morning, Ladies!”, in The Joker: A Memoir, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 246:

As we’re well into the 21st century, we might have hoped that all of that Freudian hooey about the Madonna-Whore Complex could have been ditched by now, but [Rena] Priest’s work suggests that our society is still impacted by those archetypes.

2017 June 4, Barbara McMichael, “Two views of life from Bellingham”, in Kitsap Sun, page 4D:

Like other expressions of Madonna-whore complexes, there is an idea that bad things don’t happen to good girls.

2020, Mikki Kendall, “Of #FastTailedGirls and Freedom”, in Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women White Feminists Forgot, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 48:

(psychoanalysis) A complex said to develop in men who see women as either saintly "Madonnas" or debased prostitutes, potentially leading to the inability to maintain sexual arousal within a committed, loving relationship.


individual psychology

(psychoanalysis) A psychological method or science founded by the Viennese psychiatrist Alfred Adler.


Other

Semantic loan from French Autre, principally after French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan (also as grand Autre) and philosopher Emmanuel Levinas.

In its most fundamental dimension, sacrifice is a “gift of reconciliation” to the Other, destined to appease its desire. Sacrifice conceals the abyss of the Other’s desire, more precisely: it conceals the Other’s lack, inconsistency, “inexistence,” that transpires in this desire. Sacrifice is a guarantee that “the Other exists” […]

1992, Slavoj Žižek, Enjoy Your Symptom! Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out, →ISBN, page 56:

The transformations of writing bear an ethical as well as an aesthetic or literary significance; writing implies orientation towards the Other in the midst of which a renewal of the self becomes possible.

2006, Lisa Guenther, The Gift of the Other: Levinas and the Politics of Reproduction, →ISBN, page 123:

Critiquing the Western philosophical tradition of privileging the autonomy of the ‘I’, in which he uses Heidegger as exemplar, Levinas provocatively argues that the ‘I’ ultimately exists to be responsible for the Other – a responsibility based not on reciprocity (whether the Other behaves in accordance to expectations of the ‘I’) but on an asymmetrical and infinite kind of responsibility.

2015, Jonathan Corpus Ong, The Poverty of Television: The Mediation of Suffering in Class-Divided Philippines, →ISBN, page 17:

(philosophy, psychoanalysis) Radical alterity or otherness conceived or reified as a separate entity; “other people” altogether in their difference from oneself.


philobat

Blend of philo- + acrobat. Coined by Hungarian psychoanalyst Michael Balint in 1955.

Coordinate term: ocnophil

Or maybe this was her true personality coming through, the way alcoholism showed in some people around thirty-five. Jean the philobat, on the pattern of acrobat, the type that prefers to cope alone with difficult, uncertain situations. Though of course she hadn't been alone.

2008, Isabel Fonseca, Attachment, London: Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, pages 182–183:

(psychoanalysis) Someone who enjoys handling challenging and dangerous situations on their own.


philobatic

en-adj

philobatic (comparative more philobatic, superlative most philobatic)

more philobatic (comparative)
most philobatic (superlative)

From philobat + -ic. Coined by Hungarian psychoanalyst Michael Balint in 1955.

Coordinate term: ocnophilic

The philobatic environment consists of friendly spaces littered with unpredictable objects; the ocnophilic world consists of objects 'separated by horrid empty spaces'.

(psychoanalysis) Relating to or characteristic of a philobat (someone who enjoys handling challenging and dangerous situations on their own).


actual neurosis

en-noun

actual neurosis (countable and uncountable, plural actual neuroses)

(psychoanalysis) A type of neurosis primarily caused by present-day factors, particularly disturbances in sexual satisfaction, rather than by unresolved infantile conflicts.


character neurosis

character neurosis (countable and uncountable, plural character neuroses)

(psychoanalysis) A type of psychological disturbance where enduring personality traits or behavioral patterns become maladaptive, leading to emotional distress and interpersonal difficulties.