Applied Psychoanalysis: Decoding Culture and Mind
Applied psychoanalysis adapts clinical psychoanalytic theory to decipher literature, the visual arts, history, and social...
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Psychological Dictionary
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Appersonation: Identity Blurring in Psychopathology
Appersonation is a psychopathological symptom and psychoanalytic construct where an individual unconsciously or delusionally adopts...
November 6, 2026
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Dr. Mohammed Looti
Aphanisis: The Dread of Lost Desire
Aphanisis is the psychoanalytic construct denoting the profound dread of the permanent loss of desire,...
November 6, 2026
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Dr. Mohammed Looti
Anxiety Object: Catalysts of Inner Dread
An anxiety object is a specific entity, situation, or mental representation onto which diffuse internal...
October 30, 2026
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Dr. Mohammed Looti
Anxiety Hysteria: Freud’s Classic Phobia Model
Anxiety hysteria is a classical psychoanalytic concept developed by Sigmund Freud to explain how repressed...
October 30, 2026
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Dr. Mohammed Looti
Anxiety Fixation: Mechanisms and Clinical Scope
Explore anxiety fixation across psychoanalytic theory and modern cognitive neuroscience. Discover its mechanisms, somatic manifestations,...
October 30, 2026
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Dr. Mohammed Looti
Anna O.: The Birth of the Talking Cure
Explore the comprehensive clinical history of Anna O. (Bertha Pappenheim), Josef Breuer's patient who pioneered...
October 28, 2026
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Dr. Mohammed Looti
Antilibidinal Ego: Fairbairn’s Internal Saboteur
Explore W.R.D. Fairbairn's concept of the antilibidinal ego, the internal saboteur that represses desire and...
October 26, 2026
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Dr. Mohammed Looti
Anticathexis: The Ego’s Defensive Energy
Anticathexis is the psychoanalytic psychic energy used by the ego to block, repress, and counter...
October 23, 2026
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Dr. Mohammed Looti
Annihilation Anxiety: The Terror of Psychic Collapse
Annihilation anxiety is an archaic, catastrophic fear of psychic extinction, bodily fragmentation, and the total...
October 23, 2026
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Dr. Mohammed Looti
Analytic Third: Beyond Subject and Object
The analytic third is an intersubjective psychological construct co-created by the conscious and unconscious subjectivities...
October 7, 2026
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Dr. Mohammed Looti
Analytic Rules: The Framework of Psychoanalysis
An in-depth academic examination of analytic rules: exploring the fundamental rule, neutrality, abstinence, historical evolution,...
October 7, 2026
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Dr. Mohammed Looti