post-Freudianadj.n.
/ˌpəʊstˈfrɔɪdɪən/, U.S. /ˌpoʊstˈfrɔɪdiən/ Psychology.
A. adj.
Influenced by Freud's theories or work; occurring after the impact of Freudian ideas (see Freudian adj.).
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the mind > mental capacity > psychology > theory of psychoanalysis > theories of Freud > [adjective] > subsequent to
post-Freudian1922
neo-Freudian1932
1922 E. C. PArsons in H. E. Stearns Civilization in U.S. 311 There is no need in this post-Freudian day of dwelling upon the effects of suppression of sex instinct or impulse. Suppression leads, we are told, either to sublimation..or it leads to perversion or disease.
1948 Jrnl. Aesthetics & Art Crit. 7 173 The selection has been made to include both pre-Freudian and post-Freudian writers.
1964 E. Becker in I. L. Horowitz New Sociol. 114 Mills has here failed to push on to a fully post-Freudian social psychology.
1977 R. L. Wolff Gains & Losses i. 46 The emotional language frequent in nineteenth-century friendships between persons of the same sex..arouses thoughts in post-Freudian minds that sometimes were not present..in pre-Freudian minds.
1994 H. Bloom Western Canon iii. xii. 307 ‘Repressed’ enters only here in all of Dickinson's poetry, and in our post-Freudian age we need to remember the word's older meaning, which has to do with voluntary rather than involuntary concealment or forgetfulness.
B. n.
A person, esp. a psychoanalyst, whose ideas or practice have developed and diverged from strictly Freudian doctrine (see Freudian adj.). Also more generally: a person living after Freud, and hence (consciously or unconsciously) influenced by his theories.
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the mind > mental capacity > psychology > theory of psychoanalysis > theories of Freud > [noun] > following
post-Freudian1928
1928 J. B. Watson in Psychologies of 1925 ii. 37 The awe-inspiring number of volumes and papers and journals produced by Freudians and post-Freudians in the last 20 years would fill a good-sized room.
1938 Ess. & Stud. 1937 23 82 He [sc. Balzac] had little to learn of normal psychology from the post-Freudians.
1961 J. A. C. Brown (title) Freud and the post-Freudians.
1990 L. J. Archer et al. Through Devil's Gateway (BNC) 61 This sort of ‘fanatical’ asceticism..smacks deeply, to us post-Freudians, of the neurotic.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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