Example sentences for: freudian

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

  • Prudie thinks you meant your signature to be "Catch-22," which suggests either English is not your first language or you have made quite a Freudian slip.

  • He is abetted by his beautiful psychoanalyst mother, Renata, who is also crudely drawn: Like some caricature of a Freudian, she has an urge to psychoanalyze Schmidt whenever he is in her presence.

  • In Freudian terms, the Niceness Principle is often equivalent to the defense mechanism of reversal, in which the individual transforms the situation into its opposite, usually as a retreat from unpleasant emotions.

  • In the New Republic , the anti-Freudian Frederick Crews describes Showalter's theory of hysteria as itself an "attempt to whip up a little hysteria."

  • Harry's a walking Freudian time bomb.


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