Some of the most important concepts and theories of psychoanalysis are listed here by themes. You may click each keyword to be taken to quotes about them collected from the works of Sigmund Freud.

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Topics

2. Resistance and censorship

3. Trauma, fixation, regression, sublimation

4. Projection, ambivalence, identification

5. Oedipus complex

6. Transference and the compulsion to repeat

7. Defence mechanisms

Methapsychology

8. Instincts

9. Sexuality: libido, libidinal (psychosexual) stages of development, the castration complex (boys and girls)

10. Pleasure principle and reality principle