Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis is a set of theories and therapeutic techniques established in the early 1890s by Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud. The discipline focuses its myriad explorations on the workings of the unconscious mind, primarily as a method of treatment for mental disorders. The field has continued to evolve, branching into different schools of clinical thought, and developing a variety of applications both within and outside of the field of psychology.
Phallocentrism
The ideology that the phallus, or male sexual organ, is the central element in the organization of the social world. Phallocentrism has been analyzed in literary criticism, psychoanalysis, psychology, linguistics, medicine, health care, and philosophy.
Patriarchal
Patriarchy is a social system in which men hold primary power and dominate in roles of political leadership, moral authority, social privilege and control of property. Some patriarchal societies are also patrilineal, meaning that property and title are inherited by the male lineage.
Castration
The removal of the male sex organ, and in Freud's theories, an unconscious fear in the infantile male psyche.
Exemplified
To give an example of; illustrate by giving an example; to epitomize or typify.
Avant-Garde
The avant-garde movement signifies work that is experimental, radical, or unorthodox with respect to art, culture, or society. That which is avant-garde is frequently characterized by aesthetic innovation and initial unacceptability.
Scopophilia
Sigmund Freud used the term scopophilia to describe, analyse, and explain the concept of Schaulust, the pleasure in looking—a curiosity which he considered a partial-instinct innate to the childhood process of forming a personality. This pleasure-instinct might be sublimated, either into aesthetics such as art, or other healthy forms of looking, or into obsessional neurosis (i.e. "Peeping Tom").
Voyeurism
The practice of obtaining sexual gratification from observing others, often without their consent. More colloquially, the practice of taking pleasure in observing something private, sordid, or scandalous.
Surreptitious
Done, made, or acquired by stealth; acting or doing something clandestinely.
Hermetically
Kept away, insulated, or protected from outside influences.
Primordial
The most basic and original form; the earliest stage of development.
Transcending
To surpass; to be or go beyond the range or limits of (something abstract, typically a conceptual field or division).
Diegesis
Diegesis is a style of fiction storytelling that presents an interior view of a world in which details about the world itself and the experiences of its characters are revealed explicitly through narrative. More colloquially, the term simply means "narrative" or "plot."
Conventions
The way something is usually done, especially within a particular area or activity; traditions or standards of practice.
Masochism
The tendency to derive pleasure, especially sexual gratification, from one's own pain or humiliation.
