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Words, Lost
and Found
An Archive of Psychoanalytic Language
By Lost and Found Psychotherapy
Words that were lost to overuse,
found through the texts that conceived them.
An archive that keeps psychoanalytic language as complex as it is, without letting it turn vague or misrepresented. Written for clinicians and trainees, and anyone who wants to know what a word really means, before a meme got to it.
- origin → where the word first appears in the sense given here
- kin → works that think alongside it
- order → each school, earliest first
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