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psychoanalytic process

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Noun1.psychoanalytic process - a process that is assumed to occur in psychoanalytic theory
defence, defence mechanism, defence reaction, defense mechanism, defense reaction, defense - (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
human process - a process in which human beings are involved


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By explicitly bringing this "splitting" (which has its source in the self-criticism of the avant-garde as an institution) to bear on the psychoanalytic process of transference, in which unconscious desires are projected onto an object in the framework of a specific relationship, Fraser has once more made clear that it is the institutional framework itself that makes possible both analysis and critique--yet by the same token represents the greatest resistance to them.
As in the psychoanalytic process, dreams are widely believed to hold answers to hidden subconscious thoughts, feelings, and experiences and in addition, many believe we receive answers to life's problems during sleep from divine sources.
For Freud, memories reside in the individual unconscious in the form of repressed memory traces, which are brought to the surface in the psychoanalytic process though the speech act (the 'talking cure').
 
 
 
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