Basic Ideas
The psychoanalytic theory consists of the ideas of based around personality, such as the division of the psyche into the id, ego, and superego, repression, transference, dream-interpretation, and the Oedipus complex, just to name a few. For more detail, see psychoanalysis or psychodynamic theory.
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