CriticaLink | Freud: On Narcissism | Terms

The German word Umwelt means "environment" or "surroundings". As the mind develops, the impulses of the id have to be brought in line with real conditions in the external world so that the biological needs of the individual can be met, and the ego emerges as the mental apparatus that negotiates between the id and external reality.

• Adler, Alfred
• Bleuler, Eugen
• Busch, Wilhelm
• Ferenczi, Sándor
• Heine, Heinrich
• Jung, Carl Gustav
• Kraepelin, Emil

• anaclitic object choice
• anxiety neurosis
• cathexis
• Cogito
• dementia praecox
• erotogenicity
• hypochondria
• hysteria
• idealization
• instinct
• introversion
• libido
• narcissism
• narcissistic object choice
• neurasthenia
• neurosis
• Oedipus complex
• paraphrenia
• primary narcissism
• retrogression
• schizophrenia
• sublimation
• superego
• transference neuroses
• Umwelt
• vicissitude