Psychology Posters

Psychology posters

This entire project reflects my personal interpretation of the concepts illustrated, so it embeds notions that are surely far from the master principles of psychology.

Medusa's Head

The Medusa's Head is a short writing by Sigmund Freud, written in 1922, in which the idea of castration anxiety is discussed. (Source Wikipedia)

Illustration pour le texte La tête de Meduse de Freud

Medusa's Head

Anxiety Disorder

Anxiety neurosis is a permanent neurotic state in which the symptoms, behaviors and personality traits are the direct expression of a pervasive and permanent anxiety. It is a concept identified and described by Sigmund Freud in 1895. (Source Wikipedia)

Anxiety Disorder

Borderline

Borderline personality disorder (BPD), or borderline personality disorder (BPD), is a personality disorder characterized by major impulsivity and marked instability of emotions, interpersonal relationships and self-image. (Source Wikipedia)

Borderline

Transfer

Transference in psychoanalysis designates a process during which unconscious feelings or desires towards the first objects invested in the history of a subject - most often the parents - are transferred to another person.
The psychoanalytic treatment is the privileged place for the emergence and analysis of the transference onto the analyst.

Transfer

Castration Complex

The castration complex resulting from the castration anxiety is for Freud a determining element of the theory of the Oedipus complex. It is the organizer of the difference of the sexes. Jacques Lacan, in particular, theorizes the symbolic castration as a type of lack for the subject. (Source Wikipedia)

Castration complex

Hysterical Neurosis

Hysteria is a disease with various manifestations. The unconscious psychic conflicts are expressed symbolically in bodily and/or psychic symptoms, paroxysmal or lasting. In the hysterical neurosis, the refused anguish is diverted, without the subject's knowledge, on the somatic way. (Source Wikipedia)