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a set of techniques for exploring underlying motives and a method of treating various mental disorders; based on the theories of Sigmund Freud; "his physician recommended psychoanalysis"
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Psychoanalysis is a family of psychological theories and methods which claim to elucidate unconscious relations in a systematic way through an associative process. The fundamental subject matter of psychoanalysis is the unconscious patterns of life revealed through the analysand's (the patient's) free associations. ...
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Approach to the study of human personality involving the rigorous probing of an individual's personal problems, motives, goals and attitudes to life in general. Founded by Sigmund Freud. Followers like Carl Jung and Alfred Adler (Adlerian Psychology) broke away to found their own schools. [PRS]
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Psychoanalytical theory has had a huge impact upon literary studies, mainly through the work of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan. Psychoanalysis is variously a mode of interpretation, a theory about the formation of the subject (a theory of identity and language), an apparatus through which to understand the workings of ideology in culture.
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The method of psychological therapy originated by Sigmund Freud in which free association, dream interpretation, and analysis of transference are used to explore repressed or unconscious impulses, anxieties, and internal conflicts, in order to free psychic energy for mature love and work.
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