Freud

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Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) is the oft-misunderstood founder of modern psychotherapy as well as introducing such important concepts as the unconscious mind and the ego.

• Early and Late Freud: How he changed his mind.
• Freud's Personality Factors: Ego, id, super-ego and cathexis.
• Defense Mechanisms: Many ways we cope with stress.
• Transference: projecting one person onto another.
• Freud's Psychosexual Stage Theory: sex images in early life.
• Identification: Associating with others.
• Internalization: Adopting objects into the personality.
• Incorporation: Primitive ingestion of things into the body.
• Introjective identification: Introjecting good parts of others into the ego.
• Life and death drives: Eros (libido) and Thanatos.
• Narcissism: Primary self-love.
• Oedipus Complex: Inter-gender jealousies.
• Pleasure-pain principle: seeking immediate gratification, avoiding discomfort.
• Reality principle: Pragmatic deferral of pleasure.

See also

Klein, Lacan