Sterba Richard - The First Dictionary of Psychoanalysis

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I would like to express my deep gratitude to all the people who have supported me in this daunting undertaking and have assisted me in innumerable ways in bringing this project to its completion:

To Salman Akhtar, psychoanalyst, author, friend, colleague, poet, and lexicographer extraordinaire, who first brought the existence of Sterba's lexicon to my attention and convinced me of its historical importance and the value of making it accessible to the public.

To Leticia Fiorini and Gennaro Saragnano, former and present chairs of the publications committee of the International Psychoanalytical Association; and to its members, Mary Kay O'Neil, Samuel Arbiser, Gail Reed, Christian Seulin and Paulo Sandler, who have responded positively to all my suggestions and wholeheartedly supported my efforts in bringing the project to fruition.

To Robert Michels, Verena Sterba Michels and Katherine J. Michels, whose long-standing dedication to psychoanalysis and whose familial ties to Richard Sterba have immeasurably enriched both the content and spirit of the work.

To Nellie Thompson, who made it possible for me to gain access to the transcript of the interview with Richard Sterba, made under the auspices of the Columbia Psychoanalytic Textbook Project, which is included in the volume, and who provided me with valuable information about its nature and origin.

To Rhoda Bawdekar-Sebastin, publications officer of the International Psychoanalytical Association, who has graciously answered my sometimes perplexing questions and guided me in solving innumerable technical problems connected with the production of the volume.

To Kevin Murphy, chair of the Department of Humanities of the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, whose support and perseverance were crucial in facilitating my receiving a sabbatical leave from the university to complete the project; and to all my colleagues in the department, who have continually encouraged me in this, and other scholarly endeavours over the years.

And lastly, to my brother, Axel Hoffer, whose influence in my life is profound and incalculable, and without whose enduring presence this work, and others like it, would never have come into being.

Peter T. Hoffer
Philadelphia, September 2012

ALPHABETICAL LIST OF GERMAN HEADINGS AND THEIR ENGLISH EQUIVALENTS

abasia; Abasie

abnormal; abnorm

aboulia; Abulie

abreaction, to abreact; abreagieren

abstinence; Abstinenz

absurd; absurd

accent; Akzent

accidental; akzidentell

acme; Akme

act out; agieren

act, operation; Akt

action, reaction, activity; Aktion

active technique; aktive Technik

active-passive; aktiv-passiv

activity; Aktivitt

actual or current neurosis; Aktualneurose

actual; aktuell

acute hallucinatory confusion; Amentia

acute; akut

adaptation; Anpassung

adequate; adquat

Adler, Alfred

aesthetic feelings; sthetische Gefhle

aetiology; tiologie

affect; Affekt

affection; Affektion

affective; affektiv

affectivity; Affektivitt

aggression; Aggression

aggressive impulse or instinct; Aggressionstrieb

agoraphobia; Agoraphobie

alcoholic delirium; Alkoholdelirium

alcoholism; Alkoholismus

alimentary; alimentr

alloplastic; alloplastisch

altruism; Altruismus

ambisexuality; Ambisexualitt

ambition; Ehrgeiz

ambivalence of feeling; Gefhlsambivalenz

ambivalence; Ambivalenz

amnesia; Amnesie

amount or charge of affect; Affektbetrag

amphierotic; amphierotisch

amphigenic; amphigen

amphimixis; Amphimixis

anaclitic or dependent type of object choice; Anlehnungstypus der Objektwahl

anaesthesia; Ansthesie

anagogic; anagogisch

anal character; Analcharakter

anal erotism; Analerotik, Analitt

anal region; Afterzone

anal region; Analzone

anal; anal

analgesia; Analgesie,

anal-sadistic; analsadistisch

analysand; Analysand

analysis; Analyse

analyst; Analytiker

anamnesis; Anamnese

animatism; Animatismus

animism; Animismus

antagonistic; antagonistisch

anthropology; Anthropologie

anthropophagy; Anthropophagie

anticathexis; Gegenbesetzung

anticipatory anxiety; Erwartungsangst

anticipatory idea or image; Erwartungsvorstellung

antithesis, the opposite; Gegensatz

antithetical or contrary sense of primal words; Gegensinn der Urworte

antithetical pairs; Gegensatzpaar

anxiety hysteria; Angsthysterie

anxiety; Angst

anxiety-dream; Angsttraum

anxiety-equivalent; Angstquivalent

anxiety-neurosis; Angstneurose

anxiety-pleasure; Angstlust

anxiety-readiness; Angstbereitschaft

anxiety-signal; Angstsignal

apathy; Apathie

apparatus exerting [imaginary] influence; Beeinflussungsapparat

appropriate; adquat

arc de cercle Arc de cercle

archaic; archaisch

ascetiscism; Askese

asexuality, absence of sexuality; Asexualitt

asocial; Asozial

association; Assoziation

association-experiment; Assoziationsexperiment

association-psychology; Assoziationspsychologie

asthenia; sthenie

asthma; Asthma

atonement; Bue

attack; Anfall, Attacke

attention; Aufmerksamkeit

attention-theory of parapraxes; Aufmerksamkeitstheorie der Fehlleistungen

aura; Aura

authority; Autoritt

autism; Autismus

autistic thinking; autistisches Denken

autoerotism; Autoerotismus; Autoerotik

autohypnosis; Autohypnose

automatic actions; automatische Handlungen

automatic obedience; Befehlsautomatie

automatism; Automatismus

autoplastic; Autoplastisch

autosuggestion; Autosuggestion

autosymbolic phenomenon; autosymbolisches Phnomen

autotomy; Autotomie

auxiliary; auxilir

avarice; Geiz

bed-wetting; Bettnssen

being beaten; Geschlagenwerden

being devoured; Gefressenwerden

belief in demons; Dmonenglaube

belief; Glaube

binding; Bindung

bioanalysis; Bioanalyse

biogenetic law; biogenetisches Grundgesetz

biology; Biologie

bipolarity; Bipolaritt

birth; Geburt

birth-trauma; Geburtstrauma

bisexuality; Bisexualitt

bite, biting; beien

blasphemy; Blasphemie

blinding; Blendung

blocking of affect; Affektsperre

borrowed sense of guilt; entlehntes Schuldgefhl

Breuer, Josef

bridge; Brcke

brother horde; Bruderhorde

catabolic; dissimilatorisch

cathexis; Besetzung

character analysis; Charakteranalyse

character; Charakter

characterology; Charakterologie

character-resistance; Charakterwiderstand

Charcot,Jean Martin

charge; Besetzung

chemistry of sexual processes;