Rationalization: The process of substituting a plausible, false explanation for a repressed, unconscious desire.
Repression: Expulsion from consciousness of a pain-provoking mental process.
Resistance: The force which impedes the return of a repressed complex to consciousness.
Subconscious: That part of the mind of which one is unaware; the storehouse of memories ancestral and personal.
Sublimation: The act of freeing sex-energy from
definitely sexual aims; utilization of sex-energy for nonsexual ends.
Suggestion: The process by which any idea, true or false, takes hold of one; the idea may enter the mind consciously or unconsciously, through reason or through impulse.
Symbol: An object or an attitude which stands for an ides or a quality; (Special) that which stands for or represents some unconscious mental process.
Threshold (door-sill): A figure which represents the level of the barrier erected by the mind against the perception of an idea or sensation.
Transference: Unconscious identification of a present personal relationship with an earlier one, with conveyance of the earlier emotional attitudes (hostile or affectionate) to the present relationship.