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• fixation — Synonyms and related words: Freudian fixation, anchorage, arrest, arrestation, arrested development, arrestment, blockage, blocking, check, clogging, closing up, closure, colonization, complex, compulsion, confirmation, constriction, cramp, craze …   Moby Thesaurus

• fixation — was used from the 17c with the general meaning ‘the action of fixing’. Its current meaning of ‘obsession, fixed idea’ is a legacy of the use in Freudian psychosexual theory: • Don has this very definite fixation that I am going to bang up our…new …   Modern English usage

• fixation — late 14c., fixacion, an alchemical word, from M.L. fixationem (nom. fixatio), noun of action from pp. stem of L. fixare, frequentative of figere to fix (see FIX (Cf. fix)). Used in the Freudian sense since 1910 …   Etymology dictionary

• fixation — 1. The condition of being firmly attached or set. 2. In histology, the rapid killing of tissue elements and their preservation and hardening to retain as nearly as possible the same relations they had in the living body. SYN: fixing. 3. In… …   Medical dictionary

• arrested development — Synonyms and related words: Freudian fixation, amentia, backwardness, blithering idiocy, cretinism, father fixation, fixation, half wittedness, idiocy, idiotism, imbecility, infantile fixation, infantilism, insanity, libido fixation, mental… …   Moby Thesaurus

• regression — Synonyms and related words: Brownian movement, Freudian fixation, about face, advance, angular motion, arrested development, ascending, ascent, atavism, axial motion, backflowing, backing, backset, backsliding, backward deviation, backward motion …   Moby Thesaurus

• Freud — Sigmund, Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, 1856–1939, founder of psychoanalysis. See freudian, freudian fixation, freudian psychoanalysis, freudian slip, F. theory. * * * (froid) Sigmund, 1856–1939. German born psychiatrist in Austria; the …   Medical dictionary

• Oral stage — The oral stage: An infant feeding at his mother’s breast. In Freudian psychoanalysis, the term oral stage denotes the first psychosexual development stage wherein the mouth of the infant is his or her primary erogenous zone. Spanning the life… …   Wikipedia

• Oedipus complex — For the species of salamander, see Oedipina complex. Oedipus explains the riddle of the Sphinx, by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, (ca. 1805). In psychoanalytic theory, the term Oedipus complex denotes the emotions and ideas that the mind keeps in …   Wikipedia

• Sigmund Freud — Freud redirects here. For other uses, see Freud (disambiguation). Sigmund Freud Sigmund Freud, by Max Halberstadt, 1921 …   Wikipedia

• Otto F. Kernberg — Born 1928 Vienna, Austria …   Wikipedia