Psychoanalytic CT

the theory of psych established by Sigmund Freud

the expunging from consciousness

competition with the parent of the same gender for the attention and the affection of the parent of the opposite gender

competition with siblings for the attention and affection of parents

hearing and seeing only what we feel we can handle

modifying our memories so that we don’t feel overwhelmed by them, or forgetting painful events entirely

believing that the problem doesn’t exist or the unpleasant incident never happened

staying away from the people or situations that are liable to make us anxious by stirring up some unconscious experience or emotion

“taking it out” on someone or something less threatening than the person who caused our fear, hurt, frustration, or anger

ascribing our fear, problem, or guilty desire to someone else and then condemning him or her in order to deny that we have it ourselves

the temporary return to a former psychological state, which is not just imagined, but relived

the acknowledgement and working through of repressed experiences and emotions because we can alter the effects of a wound only when we relive the wounding experience

What we experience when our defenses momentarily break down

issues that stay with us throughout life and unless effectively addressed, they determine our behavior in destructive ways of which, we are usually unaware

the chronic and overpowering feeling that emotional closeness will seriously hurt or destroy us and that we can remain emotionally safe only by remaining at an emotional distance from others at all times.

the unshakeable belief that our friends and loved ones are going to desert us (physical abandonment) or don’t really care about us (emotional abandonment)Fear of betrayal – the nagging feeling that our friends and loved ones can’t be trusted (ex. Can’t be trusted not to lie to us / not to laugh at us behind our backs / not to cheat on us by dating others)

the belief that we are less worthy than other people and, therefore, don’t deserve attention, love, or any other of life’s rewards. We often believe that we deserve to be punished by life in some way.

the inability to sustain a feeling of personal identity, to sustain a sense of knowing ourselves. This core issue makes us very vulnerable to the influence of other people and we may find ourselves continually changing the way we look or behave as we become involved with different individuals or groups.

a dysfunctional bond with a parent of the opposite sex that we don’t’ outgrow in adulthood and that doesn’t allow us to develop mature relationships with our peers.

the dreams underlying meaning or “the message” are unconscious expresses in our dreams

occurs whenever we use a “safe” person, event, or object as a “stand-in” to represent a more threatening person, event, or object

occurs during a dream whenever we use a single dream image or event to represent more than one unconscious wound or conflict.

what displacement and condensation are collectively called

the dream’s latent content

forgetting certain parts of the dream or remembering parts differently from how they actually occurred when we are awake

anything that stands upright or goes off

anything that is an enclosure or container that represents the womb

Freud’s theory that death is a biological drive and is an act of physical self-destruction

the social values and taboos that we internalize and experience as our sense of right and wrong

the psychological reservoir of our instincts

sexual energy

the conscious self that experiences the external world through the sense

the desire to have a penis

the fear that boys will lose their penises

When an infant begins to see itself as a whole rather than formless and fragmented mass because the child can see the whole image reflected in a mirror

world of images or perception; the world the child experiences through images rather than through words

the desire of the mother for the child and the child’s desire of the mother

universal structure encompassing the entire field of human action and existence and it involves the function of speech and language

the a stands for autre which makes the phrase read “object small other” which influences me and only me, whereas the Other with the capital O influences everyone. Also refers to anything that puts me in touch with my repressed desire for my lost object

the uninterpretable dimension of existence; it is existence without the filters and buffers of our signifying or meaning-making, systems

the realization that the reality hidden beneath the ideologies society has created is a reality beyond our capacity to know and explain and therefore certainly beyond our capacity to control