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Freudian:

	Sigmund Freud, born Sigismund Shlomo Freud, in what is now Pribor, Czechoslovakia (1856). He's the founder of psychoanalysis. In 1899 he published his masterwork, The Interpretation of Dreams. He argued that dreams were the fulfillment of our wishes, and that neuroses could be traced back to repressed childhood experiences and desires. He's responsible for everyday phrases like, "You're being defensive," and "You're rationalizing," and for the "Freudian slip." His son said, "I didn't know the full facts of life until I was 17. My father never talked about his work." He wrote, "I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think." Freudian terms have become part of the vernacular but with little understanding of their meaning. Mostly, "Freudian" conjures up sexual obsessions and perversities. Some of the phrases assocaited with Freud are: "castration complex", "death wish", "Oedipus complex", "Freudian Slip", "fixation", "id." Freudian Slip: An error in speech that reveals repressed thoughts or feelings; for example, accidentally calling one�s wife �Mom.� Oedipus Complex: In Freudian theory, the unconscious desire of a young child for sexual intercourse with the parent of the opposite sex, especially between boys and their mothers . Followers of the psychologist Sigmund Freud long believed that the Oedipus complex was common to all cultures, although many psychiatrists now refute this belief. The Oedipus complex is named after the mythical Oedipus, who unwittingly killed his father and married his mother. death wish: a. A desire for self-destruction, often accompanied by feelings of depression, hopelessness, and self-reproach. b. The desire, often unconscious, for the death of another person, such as a parent, toward whom one has unconscious hostility. 2. A suicidal urge thought to drive certain people to put themselves consistently into dangerous situations. fixation: A strong attachment to a person or thing, especially such an attachment formed in childhood or infancy and manifested in immature or neurotic behavior that persists throughout life ~The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002.

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