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Freud

[ US /ˈfɹɔɪd/ ]
NOUN
  1. Austrian neurologist who originated psychoanalysis (1856-1939)

How To Use Freud In A Sentence

  • How ironic that a German footballer should provide us with sport's finest example of Schadenfreude.
  • He invoked the name of Freud in support of his argument.
  • Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor. Sigmund Freud 
  • A parallel argument is put by contemporary feminist writers when they discuss Freud's ideas regarding relationships between parents and children.
  • He offers an impressive specification of the role that disgust plays in Freud's evolutionary theory of repression.
  • When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature. Sigmund Freud 
  • I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection. Sigmund Freud 
  • And what's so impressive is that Parini manages to create Melville's homoerotic yearning and despair in the context of 19th-century attitudes about sexuality, a pre-Freudian age that had not neatly divided the world into gay and straight, but also had no words for the feelings of love between men that Walt Whitman was so bravely yawping about. Melville's stormy seas
  • I think it's these areas that people are immersed in when they're moved to speak of Freud's outdatedness, and perhaps rightly so.
  • It became convenient to account for shifts in Freud's work by focusing on his early reliance on drawing and to cite the influence of painters from northern Europe such as Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres and Albrecht Dürer, or even to suggest a false comparison with the Neue Sachlichkeit painters active in Germany in the 1920s but unknown to the young Freud and overlook others as relevant as Paul Cézanne and Chaim Soutine. Lucian Freud obituary
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