Example sentences for: freudian

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

  • MacGregor careers from the vulgar Freudian to the idiosyncratically bizarre--for instance, "The trauma of [Darger's mother's] death was represented in his later life by an obsessional preoccupation with weather."

  • The Lacan characterized in this book as flamboyantly voracious for the Freudian triumvirate of women, money, and power is, as Roudinesco suggests, a Balzacian hero: a triumph of appetite over class.

  • 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.

  • It boasts, essentially, a single joke, the one about the Mafia kingpin (Robert De Niro) who goes to a Freudian psychiatrist (Billy Crystal) to cure his panic attacks.

  • 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.


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