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German Vocabulary of Psychoanalysis

German terms central to Freud’s structural, dynamic, developmental, and interpretive vocabulary, plus a small number of indispensable terms from later analytic practice.

A curated Words list.

24 words

German · Experimental / limited support

24 of 29 curated words are in the development corpus.

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Ich German NOUN
Sense 1 of 2

ego

Es German NOUN
Sense 1 of 1

id

Über-Ich German NOUN
Sense 1 of 1

superego

Trieb German NOUN
Sense 2 of 3

drive (desire or interest)

Libido German NOUN
Sense 1 of 1

libido (sexual urges or drives)

Verdrängung German NOUN
Sense 3 of 3

repression, suppression

Übertragung German NOUN
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No definition is shown: the source records no sense of this word that is the meaning this list is about.

Widerstand German NOUN
Sense 1 of 5

resistance (act of resisting, or the capacity to resist)

Abwehr German NOUN
Sense 1 of 4

defence

Abwehrmechanismus German NOUN
Sense 1 of 1

defense mechanism

Fehlleistung German NOUN
Sense 2 of 2

Freudian slip

Versprecher German NOUN
Sense 1 of 1

slip of the tongue (mistake in speech)

Traumdeutung German NOUN
Sense 1 of 1

interpretation of dreams

Traumarbeit German NOUN
Sense 1 of 1

dreaming, dream process

Verdichtung German NOUN
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No definition is shown: the source records no sense of this word that is the meaning this list is about.

Verschiebung German NOUN
Sense 2 of 3

shift, displacement, offset, relocation, transfer, translation

Wunscherfüllung German NOUN
Sense 1 of 1

wish fulfilment

Ödipuskomplex German NOUN
Sense 1 of 1

Oedipus complex

Kastrationsangst German NOUN
Sense 1 of 1

fear of castration

Todestrieb German NOUN
Sense 1 of 1

death drive, death instinct

Narzissmus German NOUN
Sense 1 of 1

narcissism

Identifizierung German NOUN
Sense 1 of 1

identification

Fixierung German NOUN
Sense 1 of 1

fixing, fixation

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