Example sentences for: freudian

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

  • None of these prevents Sutton from honoring Bettelheim as an unorthodox Freudian whose creative relationship to facts was inseparable from his intuitive genius and his great empathetic powers.

  • Only with the rise of Freudian theory--specifically, the idea that not only the "ill" but also well-functioning people are captive to unconscious motives--did anyone think to psychoanalyze a president.

  • The idea of a jazz guitarist who's also a textbook Freudian hysteric--loose and yet focused when he's onstage, an anxious buffoon when he's off--has comic poetry built into it, and Penn has radar for both the comedy and the poetry.

  • McEwan is a Freudian with an Orwellian sense of decency, and his novels often trigger this sort of unsettling examination of both one's unconscious and one's conscience.

  • A cover piece offers a Freudian take on Flytrap.


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