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  2. Freud's psychoanalytic theories - Wikipedia

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    Freud's theory of psychosexual development is represented amongst five stages. According to Freud, each stage occurs within a specific time frame of one's life. If one becomes fixated in any of the five stages, he or she will develop personality traits that coincide with the specific stage and its focus.

  3. Psychoanalytic theory - Wikipedia

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    Psychoanalytic theory is the theory of personality organization and the dynamics of personality development relating to the practice of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology. First laid out by Sigmund Freud in the late 19th century (particularly in his 1899 book The Interpretation of Dreams ), psychoanalytic theory has ...

  4. Ernest Dichter - Wikipedia

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    Dichter pioneered the application of Freudian psychoanalytic concepts and techniques to business — in particular to the study of consumer behavior in the marketplace. Ideas he established were a significant influence on the practices of the advertising industry in the twentieth century. Dichter promised the "mobilisation and manipulation of ...

  5. Psychology of collecting - Wikipedia

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    Freud suggested the idea that collecting stems from toilet training behavior. [16] In the late 1990s, the popularity of relational models theories, such as self psychology led to the application of these theories to describe collecting as well, which pose the idea that collecting establishes a better sense of self. The psychoanalytic ...

  6. Sigmund Freud - Wikipedia

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    Sigmund Freud (/ f r ɔɪ d / FROYD; [2] German: [ˈziːkmʊnt ˈfrɔʏt]; born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies seen as originating from conflicts in the psyche, through dialogue between patient and psychoanalyst, [3] and the distinctive theory of ...

  7. Pleasure principle (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    Freud contrasted the pleasure principle with the counterpart concept of the reality principle, which describes the capacity to defer gratification of a desire when circumstantial reality disallows its immediate gratification. In infant and early childhood, the id rules behavior by obeying only the pleasure principle. People at that age only ...

  8. Metapsychology - Wikipedia

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    Psychoanalytic metapsychology is concerned with the fundamental structure and concepts of Freudian theory. [2] Sigmund Freud first used the term on 13 February 1896 in a letter to Wilhelm Fliess, [11] to refer to his addition of unconscious processes to the conscious ones of traditional psychology.

  9. Psychoanalysis - Wikipedia

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    Psychoanalysis [i] is a theory and field of research developed by Sigmund Freud.It describes the human mind as an apparatus that emerged along the path of evolution and consists mainly of three functionally interlocking instances: a set of innate needs, a consciousness to satisfy them by ruling the muscular apparatus, and a memory for storing experiences that arises during this.