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Alloplasty: Adapting by Changing the World
Alloplasty is a foundational construct across psychoanalysis, psychiatry, and surgery. In psychology, it describes adapting...
# Psychoanalysis
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Aim-Inhibited: Desires Transformed Into Bonds
Explore the psychoanalytic concept of aim-inhibited drives, examining how diverted instincts form platonic love, friendship,...
October 6, 2026
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Dr. Mohammed Looti
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Aim of the Instinct: Drive, Desire, and Release
The aim of the instinct in psychoanalysis represents the ultimate purpose of every drive: the...
October 6, 2026
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Dr. Mohammed Looti
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Age Regression: Reverting to the Past
Age regression is a psychological phenomenon and clinical modality in which an individual reverts to...
October 6, 2026
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Dr. Mohammed Looti
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Affective Discharge: Catharsis and Emotional Release
Affective discharge is the psychophysiological process of releasing accumulated emotional tension. Explore its psychoanalytic origins,...
October 6, 2026
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Dr. Mohammed Looti
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Activity–Passivity: Dynamics of Human Agency
The activity–passivity polarity is a foundational psychological construct that evaluates human agency, ego functioning, and...
October 6, 2026
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Dr. Mohammed Looti
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Acting Out: Behavioral Enactments of Psychic Pain
Acting out is a defense mechanism and clinical construct in which unconscious psychic conflicts, trauma,...
October 5, 2026
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Dr. Mohammed Looti
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Acting In: Resistance Within the Analytic Frame
Explore the psychoanalytic concept of acting in: its theoretical roots, manifestations within the therapeutic frame,...
October 5, 2026
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Dr. Mohammed Looti
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Abstinence Rule: Boundaries in Psychoanalysis
The abstinence rule is a core psychoanalytic principle established by Sigmund Freud, requiring clinicians to...
October 5, 2026
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Dr. Mohammed Looti
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Absence: The Architecture of Being and Non-Being
An exhaustive academic analysis of the concept of absence, tracing its metaphysical, phenomenological, psychoanalytic, semiotic,...
October 5, 2026
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Dr. Mohammed Looti
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Abreaction: Unlocking Emotional Catharsis
Abreaction is the psychoanalytic process of reviving and discharging repressed traumatic memories along with their...
October 5, 2026
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Dr. Mohammed Looti
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Abnormal Fixation: Dynamics of Stalled Gaze & Mind
Explore abnormal fixation across psychoanalytic theory, cognitive neuroscience, and neuro-ophthalmology, examining developmental arrest, attentional rigidity,...
October 5, 2026
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Dr. Mohammed Looti