44 definitions
The book's index
An Autobiographical Study
42 concepts · 44 definitions
- anticathexis1
- anticipation1
- art1
- association1
- authority1
- behaviorism1
- childhood1
- compact majority1
- couch1
- critic1
- denial1
- doctor1
- dream2
- fate1
- hypnosis1
- hypnotist1
- hysteria1
- hysterical paralysis1
- instinct1
- judgement1
- learning1
- love1
- metapsychology1
- neurotic1
- normality1
- old age1
- originality1
- philosophy1
- pressure technique1
- primal horde1
- psychoanalysis2
- psychosis1
- regression1
- religion1
- repression1
- resistance1
- seduction theory1
- sexuality1
- theory1
- topography1
- transference1
- unconscious1
A Dream (n.) is better called an attempt at wish-fulfilment, Freud conceded late, since it so often fails at its task.
A Dream (n.) analysed is worth double: it reveals a repressed wish and also carries on some worry of the previous day.
Psychoanalysis (n.) stopped being a branch of psychiatry the moment dreams proved to be built like symptoms; it became a psychology of everyone.
Psychoanalysis (n.) suffered most in America by being watered down, while many abuses sheltered under its name.
Anticipation (n.) can be an embarrassment: Nietzsche guessed so much of what analysis found that Freud long avoided reading him for that very reason.
Denial (n.) has its classical manoeuvre: refusing to look through the microscope, so as not to see what one has already denied.
Hysterical paralysis (n.) follows the everyday idea of a limb, the hand ending at the wrist, not the anatomy of nerves.
Psychosis (n.) shows on the surface what neurosis hides in the depths; what must be dug up in one lies in plain view in the other.
Anticathexis (n.) is the permanent cost of keeping something repressed, and the ego grows poorer paying it.
Art (n.) keeps two secrets analysis cannot open: the nature of the gift, and the technique.
Association (n.) under resistance never brings the repressed thing itself, only allusions to it, more remote the stronger the resistance.
Behaviorism (n.) is naive enough to boast it has done away with the whole problem of psychology.