Example sentences for: psychoanalytic

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

  • But that twist will annoy more people than it will delight, if only because it shifts the drama from the realm of the sociological to that of the psychoanalytic.

  • The case was thrown out a few years back, but the question remains: What if these so-called repressed memories are simply the product of the power of psychoanalytic persuasion?

  • The talent is name-brand--among the stars scheduled to shine there briefly at some point in the future are Harvard theologian Cornel West, Harvard philosopher Anthony Appiah, Parisian semiotician Julia Kristeva, feminist psychoanalytic critic Juliet Mitchell, and even, interestingly, that elegist of public intellectualism lost, Russell Jacoby, author of The Last Intellectuals --but all of them are of a political inclination (leftish) that has been losing the culture wars on campus of late.

  • Lacan's life was a struggle against the institutionalization of knowledge, and he flourished by creating havoc, both publicly (in a famous break with the International Psychoanalytic Institute) and privately (among some of his colleagues).

  • Bettelheim was criticized for reductive psychoanalytic thinking and applauded for his resistance to psychoanalytic dogma.


How many words do you know? Try our free vocabulary size test!


Search

Search for example sentences

Loading Loading...
Quantcast