Example sentences for: psychoanalysis

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

  • But neither Pollitt nor Sullivan nor Lear understands that psychoanalysis has been a means of simplifying the mind by presuming sexual and aggressive motives to be invariably primary and by invoking deterministic "mechanisms" that always lead to a few banal and arbitrary causative factors.

  • Toward the end of his life, historian of psychoanalysis Elisabeth Roudinesco tells us, Lacan "usually saw his tailor, his pedicurist, and his barber while conducting his analyses."

  • Instead, she bequeathed us this charming insight into the youthful exuberance of the patriarch of psychoanalysis, written in 1884: “Woe to you, my Princess, when I come.

  • The tender empathy for children's every need and want that we take for granted is little over a century old--about the same age as psychoanalysis and the notion of child-care expertise.

  • "In economics, as in psychoanalysis, understanding is the first step towards a cure.


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