Freudian

How To Use Freudian In A Sentence

• 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
• Only a fundamentalist Freudian would maintain that simple love or charity is impossible in this world.
• Freudian scholars in particular like to interpret The Turn of the Screw, and this adaptation of it, as a study of repressed sexuality.
• In Freudian terms, one may be as dissociated from the demands of the super-ego as from those of the id.
• But I think Popper may have wanted to find out criteria of demarcation between science and such pseudosciences as astrology and Freudian psychoanalysis.
• The goal of Freudian dream interpretation is to undo the work of the censor.
• We can make transport an interesting, attractive, galvanising, inspiring, or perhaps red-hot issue, but buses, trams and even Freudian trains are not and never will be sexy.
• It is therefore not at all surprising to find so many workers in other fields of medicine who believe that the terms "psychopathology" and "Freudian psychoanalysis" are synonymous, one and the same thing. The Journal of Abnormal Psychology
• One might characterize this as the microcosmically ideal Ballard fantasy, in that it partakes of the surreal — the “Gulliver” being represented as a huge flesh statue based on the work of Praxiteles — as well as of the Freudian: “as if the mutilation of this motionless colossus had released a sudden flood of repressed spite.” The Catastrophist
• Imagination and artistic creation are also, according to a strict interpretation of Freudian theory, neurotic symptoms.