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The literature published in selected psychoanalytic journals from 2001 to 2020 was obtained from the Web of Science Core Collection and analyzed using the CiteSpace visualization tool. The results showed that the number of articles published annually by psychoanalytic journals tended to be stable over the past 20 years; North America was the largest center of work in psychoanalysis, with Europe ranked second; many psychoanalytic authors worked in settings outside universities; the most active authors in this 20-year period were Fonagy, Kernberg, and Ogden; the influence of Freud, Winnicott, and Bion continues to this day; the themes of transference, countertransference, therapeutic action, and development were the hotspots for the past 20 years; to some extent, the highly cited literature reflected the intersubjective turn in psychoanalysis and the increase of exchange with empirical research; and psychoanalysis had a certain influence on medicine, psychology, and other fields, but this was less than in the first half of the 20th century. In the future, psychoanalysis needs to continue to strengthen its dialog with other disciplines.