An adaptation of psychoanalysis in short format (10-30 sessions), focused on a central conflict, actively using transference and interpretation to produce rapid, targeted change.
Jacques Lacan's psychoanalytic approach based on a return to Freud through structural linguistics, asserting the unconscious is structured like a language and using variable-length sessions.
An approach to the psyche developed by Carl Gustav Jung, exploring the collective unconscious, archetypes, individuation process and dream symbolism to achieve Self-totality.
The founding method of psychotherapy created by Sigmund Freud, exploring the unconscious through free association, dream analysis and transference to resolve deep psychic conflicts.
Beyond the unconscious and the Oedipus complex, Freudian psychoanalysis rests on a set of founding concepts that illuminate the dynamics of psychic life: repression, defence mechanisms, life and death drives, repetition compulsion, narcissism and metapsychology. This article explores these essential notions for understanding how Freud conceived the workings of the human mind and the origins of psychological suffering.
Psychoanalysis, founded by Sigmund Freud in the late 19th century, constitutes the first systematic attempt to explore the human unconscious. More than a therapeutic method, it is a comprehensive theory of psychic functioning that revolutionized our understanding of sexuality, dreams, language and human suffering. This article traces the historical origins of psychoanalysis, its founding concepts and its evolution over a century of clinical practice and intellectual debate.