Table of Contents

Editorial Preface -- Introduction -- Foreword -- A -- Abreaction -- Abstinence (Rule of) -- Acting Out -- Active Technique -- Activity/Passivity -- Actual Neurosis -- Adhesiveness of the Libido -- Affect -- Affection (or Tenderness) -- Agency -- Aggressive Instinct -- Aggressiveness (or Aggression or Aggressivity) -- Aim of the Instinct, Instinctual Aim -- Aim-Inhibited -- Allo-Erotism -- Alteration of the Ego -- Ambivalence -- Ambivalent; Pre-Ambivalent; Post-Ambivalent -- Anaclisis; Anaclitic (or Attachment) -- Anaclitic Depression -- Anaclitic Type of Object-Choice -- Anagogic Interpretation -- Anal-Sadistic Stage (or Phase) -- Anticathexis, Countercathexis -- Anxiety Hysteria -- Anxiety Neurosis -- Aphanisis -- Association -- Attention, (Evenly) Suspended or Poised -- Auto-Erotism -- Automatic Anxiety -- Autoplastic/Alloplastic -- B -- Binding -- Bisexuality -- Borderline Case -- C -- Cannibalistic -- Castration Complex -- Cathartic Method (or Therapy) -- Cathectic Energy -- Cathexis -- Censorship -- Character Neurosis -- Choice of Neurosis -- Cloacal (or Cloaca) Theory -- Combined Parent(s), Combined Parent-Figure -- Complemental Series -- Complex -- Component (or Partial) Instinct -- Compromise-Formation -- Compulsion, Compulsive -- Compulsion to Repeat (Repetition Compulsion) -- Condemnation (Judgement of) -- Condensation -- Consciousness -- Construction -- Control Analysis (or Supervised or Supervisory Analysis) -- Conversion -- Conversion Hysteria -- Counter-Transference -- D -- Damming up of Libido -- Day-Dream -- Day’s Residues -- Death Instincts -- Defence -- Defence Hysteria -- Defence Mechanisms -- Deferred Action; Deferred -- Depressive Position -- Derivative of the Unconscious -- Destructive Instinct -- Direct Analysis -- Disavowal (Denial) -- Discharge -- Displacement -- Distortion -- Dream Screen -- Dream-Work -- Dynamic -- E -- Economic -- Ego -- Ego-Ideal -- Ego-Instincts -- Egoism -- Ego-Libido/Object-Libido -- Ego-Syntonic -- Electra Complex -- Eros -- Erotogenic -- Erotogenic (or Erogenous) Zone -- Erotogenicity (or Erogenicity) -- Experience of Satisfaction -- F -- Facilitation -- Failure Neurosis (or Syndrome) -- Family Neurosis -- Family Romance -- Fate Neurosis -- Father Complex -- Fixation -- Flight into Illness -- Foreclosure (Repudiation) -- Free Association (Method or Rule of) -- Free Energy/Bound Energy -- Fright -- Frustration -- Functional Phenomenon -- Fundamental Rule -- Fusion/Defusion (of Instincts) -- G -- Gain from Illness, Primary and Secondary -- Generation of Anxiety -- Genital Love -- Genital Stage or Organisation -- ‘Good’ Object/‘Bad’ Object -- H -- Helplessness -- Hospitalism -- Hypercathexis -- Hypnoid Hysteria -- Hypnoid State -- Hysteria -- Hysterogenic Zone -- I -- Id -- Idea (or Presentation or Representation) -- Ideal Ego -- Idealisation -- Ideational Representative (α) -- Identification -- Identification with the Aggressor -- Imaginary (sb. & adj.) -- Imago -- Incorporation -- Infantile Amnesia -- Inferiority Complex -- Innervation -- Instinct (or Drive) -- Instinct to Master (or for Mastery) -- Instincts of Self-Preservation -- Instinctual Component -- Instinctual Impulse -- Instinctual Representative (α) -- Intellectualisation -- Interest, Ego-Interest -- Internalisation -- Interpretation -- Introjection -- Introversion -- Isolation -- L -- Latency Period -- Latent Content -- Libidinal Stage (or Phase) -- Libido -- Life Instincts -- M -- Manifest Content -- Masculinity/Femininity -- Masochism -- Material -- Memory-Trace (or Mnemic Trace) -- Metapsychology -- Mirror Phase (or Stage) -- Mixed Neurosis -- Mnemic Symbol -- Mothering -- N -- Narcissism -- Narcissistic Libido -- Narcissistic Neurosis -- Narcissistic Object-Choice -- Need for Punishment -- Negation -- Negative Therapeutic Reaction -- Neurasthenia -- Neuro-Psychosis (or Psychoneurosis) of Defence -- Neurosis -- Neurosis of Abandonment -- Neutrality -- Nirvana Principle -- O -- Object -- Object-Choice -- Object-Relation(ship) -- Obsessional Neurosis -- Oedipus Complex -- Oral Stage (or Phase) -- Oral-Sadistic Stage (or Phase) -- Organisation of the Libido -- Organ-Pleasure -- Over-Determination, Multiple Determination -- Over-Interpretation -- P -- Pair of Opposites -- Paranoia -- Paranoid Position -- Paraphrenia -- Parapraxis -- Part-Object -- Penis Envy -- Perceptual Identity/Thought Identity -- Perversion -- Phallic Stage (or Phase) -- Phallic Woman, Phallic Mother -- Phallus -- Phantasy (or Fantasy) -- Phobic Neurosis -- Plasticity of the Libido -- Pleasure-Ego/Reality-Ego -- Pleasure Principle -- Preconscious (sb. and adj.) -- Pregenital -- Preoedipal -- Pressure (of the Instinct) -- Primal Phantasies -- Primal Repression -- Primal Scene -- Primary Identification -- Primary Narcissism, Secondary Narcissism -- Primary Process/Secondary Process -- Principle of Constancy -- Principle of (Neuronal) Inertia -- Projection -- Projective Identification -- Protective Shield (Against Stimuli) -- Psychical (or Psychic or Mental) Apparatus -- Psychical Conflict -- Psychical Reality -- Psychical Representative (α) -- Psychical Working Out (or Over) -- Psycho-Analysis -- Psychoneurosis or Neuro-Psychosis -- Psychosis -- Psychotherapy -- Purposive Idea -- Q -- Quota of Affect -- R -- Rationalisation -- Reaction-Formation -- Realistic Anxiety -- Reality Principle -- Reality-Testing -- Regression -- Reparation -- Representability, Considerations of -- Repression -- Resistance -- Retention Hysteria -- Return of the Repressed -- Reversal into die Opposite -- S -- Sadism -- Sadism/Masochism, Sado-Masochism -- Scene of Seduction; Theory of Seduction -- Schizophrenia -- Screen Memory -- Secondary Revision (or Elaboration) -- Self-Analysis -- Sense of Guilt, Guilt Feeling -- Sense (or Feeling) of Inferiority -- Sexual Instinct -- Sexuality -- Signal of Anxiety, Anxiety as Signal -- Somatic Compliance -- Source of the Instinct -- Specific Action -- Splitting of the Ego -- Splitting of the Object -- Subconscious, Subconsciousness -- Sublimation -- Substitute-Formation (or Substitutive Formation) -- Sum of Excitation -- Super-Ego -- Suppression -- Symbolic (sb.) -- Symbolic Realisation -- Symbolism -- Symptom-Formation -- T -- Thanatos -- Thing-Presentation/Word-Presentation -- Topography; Topographical -- Training Analysis -- Transference -- Transference Neurosis -- Transitional Object -- Trauma (Psychical) -- Traumatic Hysteria -- Traumatic Neurosis -- Turning Round upon the Subject’s Own Self -- U -- Unconscious (sb. & adj.) -- Undoing (what has been done) -- Urethral Erotism (or Urinary Erotism) -- W -- Wild Psycho-Analysis -- Wish (Desire) -- Wish-Fulfilment -- Withdrawal of Cathexis (or Decathexis) -- Work of Mourning -- Working-off Mechanisms -- Working-Through

About the Author

Jean Laplanche (1924 - 2012) was described by the journal 'Radical Philosophy' as "the most original and philosophically informed psychoanalytic theorist of his day." Studying philosophy under Hyppolite, Bachelard, and Merleau-Ponty, he became an active member of the French Resistance under the Vichy regime. Under the influence (and treatment) of Jacques Lacan, Laplanche came to earn a doctorate in medicine and was certified as a psychoanalyst. He eventually broke ties with Lacan and began regularly publishing influential contributions to psychoanalytic theory, his first volume appearing in 1961. In 1967 he published, with his colleague J.-B. Pontalis, the celebrated encyclopaedia 'The Language of Psychoanalysis'. A member of the International Psychoanalytical Association, co-founder of the Association Psychanalytique de France, emeritus professor and founder of the Center for Psychoanalytic Research at the Universite de Paris VII, and assistant professor at the Sorbonne, he also oversaw, as scientific director, the translation of Freud's complete oeuvre into French for the Presses Universitaires de France.

Reviews

Sigmund Freud evolved his theories throughout his lifetime. This entailed many revisions and changes which he himself never tried to standardize rigidly into a definitive conceptual system. The need for some sort of a reliable guide which would spell out both the pattern of the evolution of Freud's thinking, as well as establish its inherent logic, was felt for a long time by both scholars and students of psychoanalysis. Drs. Laplanche and Pontalis of the Association Psychoanalytique de France succeeded admirably in providing a dictionary of Freud's concepts which is more than a compilation of mere definitions. After many years of creative and industrious research, they were able to give an authentic account of the evolution of each concept with pertinent supporting texts from Freud's own writing (in the Standard Edition translation), and thus have endowed us with an instrument for work and research which is characterized by its thoroughness, exactitude and lack of prejudice towards dogma.The Language of Psychoanalysis has already established itself as a classic and will long continue to be of invaluable use to both student and research-worker in psychoanalysis.