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– 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies seen as originating

theory, feminist theory and film theory, as well as on the practice of psychoanalysis itself. Lacan took up and discussed the whole range of Freudian concepts

distinguishes the adherents of psychoanalysis from its opponents"; thereby it remained a theoretic cornerstone of psychoanalysis until about 1930, when psychoanalysts

In psychoanalysis, anticathexis, or countercathexis, is the energy used by the ego to bind the primitive impulses of the Id. Sometimes the ego follows

Lacanian psychoanalysis, and post-structuralism. Sigmund Freud critiqued Marxism in his 1932 New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis, arguing that

to have been competent at his profession. Early in 1938, Kohut began psychoanalysis with August Aichhorn, a close friend of Sigmund Freud. After Austria

also been adjudged "'the most perplexing clinical/theoretical area' in psychoanalysis". Freud first raised the matter of identification (German: Identifizierung)

London. Initially attracted to London by the "strange new subject called psychoanalysis", he met and was impressed by Wilfred Trotter, an outstanding brain

the North American Editorial Board for the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, the Psychoanalytic Quarterly, and Psychoanalytic Dialogues. Ogden is

In psychoanalysis, psychosexual development is a central element of the sexual drive theory. According to Sigmund Freud, personality develops through a