Terms and Concepts in Psychoanalysis

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Across
  1. 5. A kind of selective barrier between unconscious and the conscious leading to repression.
  2. 6. Any of various usually unconscious mental processes, including denial, projection, rationalization, and repression, that protect the ego from shame, anxiety, conflict, loss of self-esteem, or other unacceptable feelings or thoughts.
  3. 9. Refers to the libidinal energy that is invested or attached to some object (person) outside the ego.
  4. 10. Any of the three parts of the personality - ego, superego, id.
  5. 11. Any of various mental or emotional disorders, such as hypochondria and hysteria, arising from no apparent organic lesion or change, and involving symptoms such as insecurity, anxiety, depression, and irrational fears, but without psychotic symptoms such as delusions or hallucinations.
  6. 14. The one of the three divisions of the personality that is completely unconscious and is the source of instinctual energy.
  7. 17. The part of the psychic apparatus that does not ordinarily enter the individual's awareness but may be manifested by slips of the tongue, dreams, or neurotic symptoms.
  8. 18. Any part of the body susceptible of becoming excited, of being a seat of pleasure.
  9. 20. The exclusion of distressing memories, thoughts, or feelings from the conscious mind. Often involving sexual or aggressive urges or painful childhood memories, these unwanted mental contents are pushed into the unconscious mind.
  10. 21. One of the three divisions of the psyche in psychoanalytic theory that serves as the organized conscious mediator between the person and reality and person and the id demands.
  11. 22. A state of apprehension, uncertainty, and fear resulting from the anticipation of a realistic or fantasized threatening event or situation, often impairing physical and psychological functioning.
  12. 23. A primitive impulse for destruction, decay, and death, coexisting with and opposing life instinct. Also called Thanatos.
Down
  1. 1. The attribution of one's own attitudes, feelings, or desires to someone or something as an unconscious defence against anxiety or guilt.
  2. 2. The censure opposing the repressed wishes to manifest as such during the sleep time.
  3. 3. It is the analysis that one is submitted him/herself in order to reach the unconscious and the signification of symptoms. It is usually directed by a trained psychoanalyst (supervisor). It is made with the help of the psychoanalytic techniques such as dream interpretation, free associations etc.
  4. 4. Is constituted by the operation of repression, which rejects and maintains in the unconscious representations deemed incompatible with the ego moral/superego moral values.The repressed is not directly knowable, since it pertains wholly to the unconscious sphere of the mind.
  5. 7. Psychotherapeutic method consisting in purging retained emotions through reviving of a traumatic passed event.
  6. 8. States that all processes occurring in mind are not spontaneous and free as they seem, but governed by unconscious rules or complexes. For example: when one tries to speak freely about what it comes in his/her mind in relation to a word of his/her free choice, the lines of thoughts are related each other and focus on an unconscious psychic complex.
  7. 12. Refers to stagnation of libidinal development at earlier stages and objects. This stagnation translates into childhood sexual behavior, feelings and interest at adult age.
  8. 13. The displacement of childhood feelings toward parents onto the analysit during the psychoanalytic cure.
  9. 15. Defence mechanism consisting in the transference of the affect from a representation to another, related to it.
  10. 16. A term denoting an unpleasant feeling associated with unfulfilled, repressed, wishes.
  11. 19. The product of unconscious primary process, a dream is the fulfillment of a repressed wish. Dreams are made by the dream-work which alters the latent thoughts to create the manifest content.