Example sentences for: freud

How can you use “freud” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It is so heavily scored that it looks nearly sculptural, and it is covered with dots that look like smallpox--an essay in the catalogue cites Freud, by way of Gilles Deleuze, on the "schizophrenic aptitude for perceiving the surface and skin as if it were pierced with an infinite number of little holes."

  • Only when we have grasped the full extent of the Freudian intellectual fiasco--it is adumbrated in my book but exhaustively explored in Malcolm Macmillan's Freud Evaluated: The Completed Arc (1997)--will we be able to talk about motives with an adequate respect for their actual variety and volatility.

  • Although Schnitzler wrote Traumnovelle when he was partially deaf and had withdrawn from the world, he chose to set the novella a quarter-century earlier, at the fabled Viennese fin de siècle , when Freud was spinning out NC-17-ish interpretations of dreams (he and Schnitzler were correspondents) and Schnitzler himself was attempting to beat Casanova's record for the most orgasms with the most women.

  • Wertham was a student of Freud who discovered a message that Bob Kane, Batman's creator, probably never consciously intended.

  • Freud himself proved a shockingly commanding presence, a man of barely checked intensity lurking in the shadows (he refused Lehrman's requests to come out into the sunlight) who only unstiffened in the presence of his dogs.


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