| Android | An artificial intelligence; a robot made to resemble a human being. Literally: manlike. There is no accepted word for a female android, but the equivalent would be gyneoid.
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| Begging the question | A logical fallacy whereby a person who is supposed to prove something assumes from the stat that it is a fact.
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| Bibliotherapy | Using books, usually stories of fiction, in therapy session to facilitate patients' understanding of themselves and their situation and options
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| Catharsis, cathartic | Cleansing. See Aristotle's theory of drama, Chapter 2
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| Counterfable/countermyth | A story/fable/myth told deliberately to prove another story, type of story, or idea wrong.
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| Didactic | Done or told for the purpose of teaching a lesson.
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| Ego | Freud's term for the human experience of the self. See also Superego and Id.
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| Ego integrity | Erikson's term for mental equilibrium, accepting one's past, and not playing the "what if" game with oneself.
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| Ethical Will | a statement left behind by the decedent which expresses his/her values, life experiences or lessons. The statement is left to ensure sharing these values, etc. with hi/her heirs; the Ethical Will can be updated to include new experiences; there is no age limit and it can be updated at any time.
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| Fable | A short narrative with a moral, introducing persons, animals, or inanimate things as speakers and actors.
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| Genre | A literary type of story (of film), such as horror, western, or science fiction.
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| Grail | The search for a particular object (should not be capitalized when using the term in this context)
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| Myth | A story or a collection of stories that give identity, guidance, and meaning to a culture. Usually these are stories of gods, and heroes, but they may involve ordinary people, too. In common language myth has come to mean "falsehood" or "illusion", but this is not the original meaning.
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| Narrative time | The time frame within which a story takes place. The experience of sharing this time frame as one reads or watches the story unfold.
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| Normative | Evaluating and /or setting norms or standards. Opposite of descriptive.
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| Other, the | A philosophical concept meaning either something that is completely different from yourself and all your experiences or someone who is different from you and is thus hard to understand.
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| Rehabilitation | a concept of criminal justice: punishing a criminal with the intent of making him or her a better socialized person at the end of the term of punishment.
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| Replicant | Term used in the film Blade Runner for androids. See android.
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