| unconscious homosexuality | An erotic inclination toward members of the same sex not consciously experienced or expressed in overt action, as opposed to overt homosexuality Use of this term is disappearing because of both its potentially iatrogenic effect and the inability to validate the phenomenon by techniques outside of psychoanalytic theory. Synonym: unconscious homosexuality. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| unconscious | 1. Not conscious. 2. In psychoanalysis, the psychic structure comprising the drives and feelings of which one is unaware. Synonym: insensible. Collective unconscious, in Jungian psychology, the combined engrams or memory potentials inherited from an individual's phylogenetic past. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| unconscious (psychology) | Those forces and content of the mind which are not ordinarily available to conscious awareness or to immediate recall. (12 Dec 1998) |
| male homosexuality | Erotic predisposition, or activity, including sexual congress, between two men, past the age of puberty. (05 Mar 2000) |
| homosexuality | Sexuality directed toward someone of the same sex. (12 Dec 1998) |
| homosexuality, female | Sexual attraction or relationship between females. (12 Dec 1998) |
| homosexuality, male | Sexual attraction or relationship between males. (12 Dec 1998) |
| overt homosexuality | Homosexual inclinations consciously experienced and expressed in actual homosexual behaviour. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ego-dystonic homosexuality | A psychological or psychiatric disorder in which an individual experiences persistent distress associated with same-sex preference and a strong need to change the behaviour or, at least, to alleviate the distress associated with the homosexuality. (05 Mar 2000) |
| female homosexuality | Erotic predisposition, or activity, including sexual congress, between two women past the age of puberty. (05 Mar 2000) |
| latent homosexuality | An erotic inclination toward members of the same sex not consciously experienced or expressed in overt action, as opposed to overt homosexuality Use of this term is disappearing because of both its potentially iatrogenic effect and the inability to validate the phenomenon by techniques outside of psychoanalytic theory. Synonym: unconscious homosexuality. (05 Mar 2000) |